Bourbaki

Remark

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Algebra, chapter I, § 4. Groups and groups with operators

(1) If AA is any subset of a group GG and HH is a normal subgroup of GG, then AH=HAAH = HA; this set is obtained by saturating AA with respect to the relation x≡y(modH)x \equiv y \pmod{H}.

(2) If HH is a normal subgroup of GG of finite index, the quotient group G/HG/H is a finite group of order (G:H)(G:H).

Note that if HH is a normal subgroup of a group GG and KK is a normal subgroup of HH, KK is not necessarily a normal subgroup of GG (I, §5§ 5, Exercise 10).

Let GG be a group with operators. The intersection of every family of normal stable subgroups of GG is a normal stable subgroup. Hence, for every subset XX of GG, there exists a smallest normal stable subgroup containing XX, called the normal stable subgroup generated by XX.

In a group with operators GG, the stable subgroups GG and {e}\{e\} are normal.

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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Transcribed from the printed edition, 1998, Springer. Not translated.