Complement of a proper subgroup generates the group

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Complement of a proper subgroup generates the group by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For a proper subgroup of any group , its complement is a generating set of a group. Choose . For every , also , and lies in the subgroup generated by the complement. That subgroup consequently contains both and its complement. No finiteness assumption is needed.

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