Sunday, November 4, 2012

Group Theory: Order of subgroups in Abelian groups


PROBLEM
Let $G$ be an abelian group. For any subgroup $H$ of $G$, $K$ also a subgroup of $G$, $|HK|$ divides $|G|$.

PROOF
Any subgroup of an abelian group is normal, so $H$ and $K$ are both normal subgroups of $G$ which implies $HK$ is a subgroup of $G$. The result follows from Lagrange's theorem which says that the order of any subgroup must divide the order of the group.

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