Group Theory – $G’$ and the Product of All Elements in an Odd Order Group

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Yesterday, through working on a question Groups with only one element of order 2, Don antonio brought out a nice question within the comments:

The product of all the elements in an odd order group $G$ is always contained in the group's derived subgroup $G'$.

Honestly, I tried to link some facts for proving that but, they didn't work. Thanks for any hint for that.

Best Answer

Let $\,G\,$ be a group, $\,G'=[G,G]=\,$ its derived or commutator subgroup, then we have the following:

(1) $\,G/G'\,$ is abelian, and thus

(2) Any product in $\,G/G'\,$ can be arranged at will by (1), and finally

(3) The product of all the elements in a group with an odd number of elements is in $\,G'\,$ since the product of their images in $\,G/G'\,$ is trivial.

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