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Cancellation Laws and Basic Inverse Identities in a Group

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Let (G,)(G,\ast) be a group. We write abab for aba\ast b, and we use the identity element eGe_G and the inverse a1a^{-1} of an element aa, both of which are well defined by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group. Then for all a,b,cGa,b,c\in G the following hold.

  1. (Cancellation) If ab=acab=ac then b=cb=c, and if ba=caba=ca then b=cb=c.
  2. (a1)1=a(a^{-1})^{-1}=a.
  3. (ab)1=b1a1(ab)^{-1}=b^{-1}a^{-1}.
  4. eG1=eGe_G^{-1}=e_G.
  5. (Unique solvability) There is exactly one xGx\in G with ax=bax=b, namely x=a1bx=a^{-1}b, and exactly one yGy\in G with ya=bya=b, namely y=ba1y=ba^{-1}.
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