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A right coset transversal for a subgroup $A\le G$ chooses one representative $r$ for each right coset $Ar$. Every $g\in G$ then has a unique expression $g=ar$ with $a\in A$ and $r$ in the transversal. Choosing $1$ as the representative of $A$ makes membership in $A$ equivalent to having representative $1$.

A scalar matrix is a scalar multiple of the identity matrix, equivalently a diagonal matrix with all diagonal entries equal. It commutes with every square matrix of the same size. In $G{L}_n(F)$, the nonzero scalar matrices form the central subgroup removed to define the projective linear group.

For a group $G$, a subgroup $H$, and a generating set $S$, the Schreier graph has the left cosets $G/H$ as vertices and an edge from $gH$ to $sgH$ for each $s\in S$. Its radius-$m$ ball records the cosets met by $S^m$.

The six-element dihedral group generated by the displayed rotations already forces every invariant second-rank tensor to have the same form as an axially invariant second-rank tensor. The axial threefold rotation eliminates mixed entries and leaves only a planar scalar plus a planar antisymmetric part; the transverse half-turn eliminates the latter. No smaller finite subgroup suffices: cyclic rotation groups retain an axial antisymmetric tensor, while a four-element noncyclic rotation group retains arbitrary diagonal tensors along its three mutually perpendicular half-turn axes.

For a finite group generated by $A,B$, glue sheets labeled by the group over the three-punctured Riemann sphere using left monodromy multiplication. Fill the punctures by the local power charts dictated by the orders $m,n,r$ of $A,B,AB$. Right multiplication by inverses defines the commuting deck action. Its nontrivial stabilizers are conjugates of the corresponding cyclic subgroups. The Riemann-Hurwitz formula gives the displayed Euler characteristic. A compatible metric can be averaged over the group; in genus at least two the invariant hyperbolic metric is canonical by the uniformization theorem.

The union of two subgroups is a subgroup exactly when one contains the other. Otherwise choose $h\in H\setminus K$ and $k\in K\setminus H$. Their product cannot lie in $H$, since $h^{-1}(hk)=k$ would then lie in $H$, and cannot lie in $K$, since $(hk)k^{-1}=h$ would then lie in $K$. The union therefore fails closure. Unlike the union, the subgroup generated by both subgroups always exists.

A group is virtually solvable, or virtually soluble, when it contains a solvable group as a finite-index subgroup. This is preserved under subgroups, quotients and group extensions. The extension proof can use a finite-index characteristic soluble subgroup of the kernel, followed by centralizing the resulting finite normal kernel. Finite generation is not required for these closure properties.