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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics I 6 b v Solution by
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Put . Repeated application of part (iv), or mathematical induction on , givesPart (ii) therefore implies that is an infinite set. If is nonempty, choose . We claim its left coset is wholly outside . If for some , then and closure under products and inverses would give , a contradiction.
Thus . Part (i) makes infinite, so the complement is infinite. If there is no such , the complement is empty. This proves the complement of a finite union of finite-index subgroups property:
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