Cancellation Laws and Basic Inverse Identities in a Group
theoremAlgebrathm:group-cancellation-inverse-identities-2026aLet be a group. We write for , and we use the identity element and the inverse of an element , both of which are well defined by Uniqueness of the Identity Element and of Inverses in a Group. Then for all the following hold.
- (Cancellation) If then , and if then .
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- (Unique solvability) There is exactly one with , namely , and exactly one with , namely .
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