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The three-subgroup containment for normal subgroups

Statement

For normal subgroups A,B,CG, [[A,B],C][[B,C],A][[C,A],B].

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A,B,C are normal; use the preceding commutator and conjugation conventions.

[F1]

Product commutators expand into conjugates of commutators; inverse commutators are obtained by inversion and conjugation (Commutator product identities in the fixed convention).

Proof

1.1

Put P=x[[x1,y],z]x1, Q=z[[z1,x],y]z1 and R=y[[y1,z],x]y1. Direct substitution gives P=yxy1zyx1y1xz1x1, Q=xzx1yxz1x1zy1z1, and R=zyz1xzy1z1yx1y1. Cancelling adjacent inverse pairs in PQ gives yxy1zyz1x1zy1z1=R1. Thus PQR=1.

givenalgebra
2.1

For normal U,V, [U,V] is normal: conjugation sends its generator [u,v] to [gug1,gvg1]. Therefore N=[[B,C],A][[C,A],B] is a normal subgroup (a product of two normal subgroups is a subgroup since its factors can be interchanged). Work in G/N. Substituting xA,yB,zC into step 1.1 makes Q=R=1, so [[x1,y],z]=1. Replacing x by its inverse shows that every [a,b] commutes with every cC in this quotient.

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3.1

If u and v commute with every cC in the quotient, the product identity gives [uv,c]=u[v,c]u1[u,c]=1; and [u1,c]=1 follows from 1=[uu1,c]. Consequently every finite product of the generators [a,b] and their inverses centralizes C. Hence [[A,B],C] has trivial image in G/N, which is precisely the claimed containment. This includes any of A,B,C equal to 1.

F1step 2.1

Source notes

Druţu–Kapovich, Lectures on Geometric Group Theory (585-page draft), Lemmas 10.41, 10.43 and Corollary 10.44, printed p.286. Hall identity and subgroup extension correspond to draft Lemmas 10.41 and 10.43 and Corollary 10.44. The actual cancellation and extension to all subgroup elements are supplied locally.

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