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update comment mentioning proper subgroups being isomorphic
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Signed-off-by: Ali Caglayan <[email protected]>
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Alizter committed Jan 15, 2025
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Coercion maximal_subgroup : Group >-> Subgroup.
Add Printing Coercion maximal_subgroup.

(** The group associated to the maximal subgroup is the original group. *)
(** The group associated to the maximal subgroup is the original group. Note that this equivalence does not characterize the maximal subgroup, as a proper subgroup can be isomorphic to the whole group. For example, the even integers are isomorphic to the integers. *)
Definition grp_iso_subgroup_group_maximal (G : Group)
: subgroup_group (maximal_subgroup G) $<~> G.
Proof.
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: IsMaximalSubgroup (maximal_subgroup G)
:= fun g => tt.

(** Note that we don't have an analogue for [istrivial_iff_grp_iso_trivial] since a proper subgroup of a group may be isomorphic to the entire group, whilst still being different from the maximal subgroup. The example to keep in mind is the group of integers [Z] and the subgroup of even integers [2Z]. Clearly, the integers are isomorphic to the even integers as groups, however the even integers are not equal to the maximal subgroup. *)

(** *** Subgroup intersection *)

(** Intersection of two subgroups *)
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