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Commutators, commutator subgroups and three subgroups lemma #2185

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@Alizter Alizter commented Jan 4, 2025

In this PR we define the commutator of group elements [x, y] := x * y * x^ * y^ and state and prove the basic identities about them.

We also prove the Hall-Witt identity and its variant. This is a Jacobi-like identity for commutators of groups.

Next we show that precomposing the predicate of a normal subgroup with a commutator is itself a subgroup. I couldn't find the name of this idea.

We define the commutator subgroup of two subgroups of a group, and then study the commutator of a group with itself which we call the derived subgroup. We show that it is normal and furthermore the quotient is commutative. We then state and prove that it is an abelianization and therefore automatically isomrophic to our abelianization.

Finally we prove the "three subgroups lemma" which will allow us to simplify arguments with combinators in the future.

I missed the dependency on:

@Alizter Alizter marked this pull request as draft January 4, 2025 01:43
Signed-off-by: Ali Caglayan <[email protected]>

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@Alizter Alizter force-pushed the ps/rr/commutator_subgroups branch from 5bf56bb to c799779 Compare January 4, 2025 19:26
@Alizter Alizter marked this pull request as ready for review January 4, 2025 22:10
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