coset

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EtymologyEdit

co- +‎ set; apparently first used 1910 by American mathematician George Abram Miller.

NounEdit

coset (plural cosets)

(algebra, group theory) The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.
- 1970 [Addison Wesley], Frederick W. Byron, Robert W. Fuller, Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, Volumes 1-2, Dover, 1992, page 597,
  Theorem 10.5. The collection consisting of an invariant subgroup H and all its distinct cosets is itself a group, called the factor group of G, usually denoted by G/H. (Remember that the left and right cosets of an invariant subgroup are identical.) Multiplication of two cosets aH and bH is defined as the set of all distinct products z = xy, with x ∈ aH and y ∈ bH; the identity element of the factor group is the subgroup H itself.
- 1982 [Stanley Thornes], Linda Bostock, Suzanne Chandler, C. Rourke, Further Pure Mathematics, Nelson Thornes, 2002 Reprint, page 614,
  In general, the coset in row x consists of all the elements xh as h runs through the various elements of H.
- 2009, Lindsay N. Childs, A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra, 3rd edition, Springer, page 231:
  Example 3. Let $G=\mathbb {Z}$ (the operation is $+$ ), $H=2\mathbb {Z}$ . Then the coset $1+2\mathbb {Z}$ is the set of integers of the form $1+2k$ where $k$ runs through all elements of $\mathbb {Z}$ .

Usage notesEdit

Mathematically, given a group $G$ with binary operation $\circ$ , element $g\in G$ and subgroup $H\subseteq G$ , the set $\left\{g\circ h:h\in H\right\}$ , which also defines the left coset if $G$ is not assumed to be abelian.