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The nontrivial center of a finite p-group theorem implies that the center of a group of order $p^2$ has order $p$ or $p^2$. If it has order $p$, the quotient by the center has prime order and is cyclic; a cyclic quotient by the center forces the whole group to be abelian, contradicting the assumed size of its center. Thus the group is abelian. An element of order $p^2$ makes it cyclic. Otherwise choose $a\ne 1$ and $b\notin ⟨a⟩$; their order-$p$ cyclic subgroups intersect trivially and generate the direct product of groups $C_p\times C_p$. The two possibilities are nonisomorphic because only the cyclic one has an element of order $p^2$.

If groups $G,H$ have a common nontrivial quotient $K$, act on $K$ by left multiplication through $G$ and right inverse multiplication through $H$. The actions commute. There are no fixed points of a group action for $G$, but the $H$ orbit set is a singleton. The comparison $A^G/H\to (A/H{)}^G$ is therefore the map from the empty set to a singleton, which is not an isomorphism.

For commuting actions of finite groups $G,H$ with coprime orders, the canonical map $A^G/H\to (A/H{)}^G$ is a bijection. It is always injective. On any $G$-stable $H$-orbit, all $G$-orbits have the same size, dividing both $|G|$ and the $H$-orbit size, hence dividing $|H|$. Coprimality forces that size to be one, proving surjectivity. Thus categorical limits indexed by $G$ commute with colimits indexed by $H$ in the Category of sets.

The commutator subgroup $G^{\prime }$ is generated by all $[x,y]=x^{-1}{y}^{-1}xy$. It is characteristic, $G/G^{\prime }$ is abelian, and every normal subgroup with abelian quotient contains $G^{\prime }$.

For a proper subgroup $H$ of any group $G$, its complement is a generating set of a group. Choose $x\notin H$. For every $h\in H$, also $xh\notin H$, and $h=x^{-1}(xh)$ lies in the subgroup generated by the complement. That subgroup consequently contains both $H$ and its complement. No finiteness assumption is needed.

A conformal bijection of the complex upper half-plane to itself is a real Möbius transformation with $ad-bc>0$. Three distinct boundary values determine it uniquely. Its real derivative is positive away from its pole, and $\mathrm{Im}\varphi (z)=(ad-bc)\mathrm{Im}z/|cz+d{|}^2$.

The conjugacy class of $x\in G$ is its orbit under the conjugation action:

For a conjugacy class $C$ of a finite group, $z_C={\sum }_{g\in C}g$ is central in its group algebra. In a complex irreducible representation of degree $d$ and character of a representation $\chi$, it acts by $|C|\chi (g)/d$; its trace gives this formula and Schur lemma gives scalarity.

For a subset $S$ of a group and an element $g$, its conjugate subset isConjugation is a bijection and a group automorphism, so it preserves cardinality and every property expressed using the group operation.

The normalized convolution on a finite group and the Fourier transform on a finite group convention with $\rho (x)$ satisfy the displayed identity. Substitute $x=yz$ in the defining expectation and use $\rho (yz)=\rho (y)\rho (z)$. With the convention using $\rho (x{)}^{\ast }$ instead, the scalar convolution has transform $\hat{g}(\rho )\hat{f}(\rho )$; multiplication order matters for noncommutative groups.

For a subgroup $H\le G$, a left coset is $gH=\{gh:h\in H\}$. The left cosets partition $G$ and all have cardinality $|H|$.

In a finite group, a cyclic subgroup of order $m$ has exactly $\phi (m)$ generators, where $\phi$ is the Euler totient function. Each element generates exactly one cyclic subgroup, so dividing the number of elements of order $m$ by $\phi (m)$ counts these subgroups. Include the identity subgroup using $m=1$ and $\phi (1)=1$. In a symmetric group, element counts come from cycle type and order of a group element is the least common multiple of cycle lengths.