Index of subgroup of Real number in Complex Number

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Complex Number is group under addition. Real Number is its subgroup. It is the trivially normal subgroup. I wanted to find its index.

I thought one 2 dimension plane with X axis and Y axis. Its coset can be given in form like $(0,a)+(R,0)$ Where $a$ is any real Number.
This then says that is index is same as the cardinality of R.

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Complex Number is group under addition. Real Number is its subgroup. It is the trivially normal subgroup. I wanted to find its index.

I thought one 2 dimension plane with X axis and Y axis. Its coset can be given in form like $(0,a)+(R,0)$ Where $a$ is any real Number.
This then says that is index is same as the cardinality of R.

Is I am right?







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Complex Number is group under addition. Real Number is its subgroup. It is the trivially normal subgroup. I wanted to find its index.

I thought one 2 dimension plane with X axis and Y axis. Its coset can be given in form like $(0,a)+(R,0)$ Where $a$ is any real Number.
This then says that is index is same as the cardinality of R.

Is I am right?







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Complex Number is group under addition. Real Number is its subgroup. It is the trivially normal subgroup. I wanted to find its index.

I thought one 2 dimension plane with X axis and Y axis. Its coset can be given in form like $(0,a)+(R,0)$ Where $a$ is any real Number.
This then says that is index is same as the cardinality of R.

Is I am right?









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  • Exactly right. . .
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  • Exactly right. . .
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Exactly right. . .
– Lubin
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Exactly right. . .
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You are right, the index is $|Bbb R|$ because that's how many cosets $Bbb R$ has in $Bbb C$. Geometrically, each coset is a horizontal line in the complex plane, and each horizontal line is a coset. Your argument is an exact algebraic analogue of that.






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    Another way to see this: as abelian additive groups $mathbbC=mathbbR oplus mathbbR$. Here $mathbbR cong (r,0): r in mathbbR$. Now define a map $mathbbC rightarrow mathbbR$, by $z mapsto Im(z)$. This is a surjective homomorphism, with kernel $mathbbR$. Hence $mathbbC/mathbbR cong mathbbR$ as additive groups.






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      You are right, the index is $|Bbb R|$ because that's how many cosets $Bbb R$ has in $Bbb C$. Geometrically, each coset is a horizontal line in the complex plane, and each horizontal line is a coset. Your argument is an exact algebraic analogue of that.






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        You are right, the index is $|Bbb R|$ because that's how many cosets $Bbb R$ has in $Bbb C$. Geometrically, each coset is a horizontal line in the complex plane, and each horizontal line is a coset. Your argument is an exact algebraic analogue of that.






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          You are right, the index is $|Bbb R|$ because that's how many cosets $Bbb R$ has in $Bbb C$. Geometrically, each coset is a horizontal line in the complex plane, and each horizontal line is a coset. Your argument is an exact algebraic analogue of that.






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          You are right, the index is $|Bbb R|$ because that's how many cosets $Bbb R$ has in $Bbb C$. Geometrically, each coset is a horizontal line in the complex plane, and each horizontal line is a coset. Your argument is an exact algebraic analogue of that.







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              Another way to see this: as abelian additive groups $mathbbC=mathbbR oplus mathbbR$. Here $mathbbR cong (r,0): r in mathbbR$. Now define a map $mathbbC rightarrow mathbbR$, by $z mapsto Im(z)$. This is a surjective homomorphism, with kernel $mathbbR$. Hence $mathbbC/mathbbR cong mathbbR$ as additive groups.






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                Another way to see this: as abelian additive groups $mathbbC=mathbbR oplus mathbbR$. Here $mathbbR cong (r,0): r in mathbbR$. Now define a map $mathbbC rightarrow mathbbR$, by $z mapsto Im(z)$. This is a surjective homomorphism, with kernel $mathbbR$. Hence $mathbbC/mathbbR cong mathbbR$ as additive groups.






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                  Another way to see this: as abelian additive groups $mathbbC=mathbbR oplus mathbbR$. Here $mathbbR cong (r,0): r in mathbbR$. Now define a map $mathbbC rightarrow mathbbR$, by $z mapsto Im(z)$. This is a surjective homomorphism, with kernel $mathbbR$. Hence $mathbbC/mathbbR cong mathbbR$ as additive groups.






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                  Another way to see this: as abelian additive groups $mathbbC=mathbbR oplus mathbbR$. Here $mathbbR cong (r,0): r in mathbbR$. Now define a map $mathbbC rightarrow mathbbR$, by $z mapsto Im(z)$. This is a surjective homomorphism, with kernel $mathbbR$. Hence $mathbbC/mathbbR cong mathbbR$ as additive groups.







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