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Exercise 2.2.11 (Center and normalizer of a subset $A$ of $G$)

Prove that Z ( G ) N G ( A ) for any subset A of G .

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Proof. We know that C G ( A ) N G ( A ) (see p.50). Moreover Z ( G ) C G ( A ) (If g G commutes with every element of G , it commutes in particular with the elements of A G ). So

Z ( G ) C G ( A ) N G ( A ) .

This shows that

Z ( G ) N G ( A ) .

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