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The left cosets are finitely many pairwise disjoint blocks covering G, each with |H| elements, so counting the disjoint union gives |G| = [G:H]·|H|.

Proof

Routine facts about inclusions and disjoint classes are used without comment (Toolkit for AL1).

By Left Cosets Partition a Group and All Have the Same Cardinality (iv), G/HG/H is the quotient of GG by an equivalence relation, so the canonical projection is a surjective function from GG onto G/HG/H (Equivalence Classes Partition the Set: Cover, Disjointness and Representatives; the Quotient Is a Set and the Canonical Projection Is a Surjection (vi)). Since GG is finite, G/HG/H is finite by Finite Sets: the Pigeonhole Principle, Uniqueness of the Length, Subsets, Unions, Products, Images, Bounded Sets of Natural Numbers, Extreme Elements, Sets of Maps, Finite Unions and Finite Choice (vi); this is the first assertion of (i).

To count, index the left cosets by themselves: consider the family (C)C∈G/H(C)_{C\in G/H} (Indexed Families of Sets and Their Union, Intersection and Product (i)), whose index set G/HG/H is finite. Its distinct members are disjoint by Left Cosets Partition a Group and All Have the Same Cardinality (i). The subgroup HH is finite by Finite Sets: the Pigeonhole Principle, Uniqueness of the Length, Subsets, Unions, Products, Images, Bounded Sets of Natural Numbers, Extreme Elements, Sets of Maps, Finite Unions and Finite Choice (iv), so each member C=gHC=gH is finite with #C=#H\#C=\#H by Left Cosets Partition a Group and All Have the Same Cardinality (iii). The union of the family (Indexed Families of Sets and Their Union, Intersection and Product (ii)) is GG: every g∈Gg\in G lies in gHgH by Left Cosets Partition a Group and All Have the Same Cardinality (i), and every coset is a subset of GG. Therefore The Number of Elements of a Disjoint Finite Union (ii) gives

#G=#(G/H)⋅#H,that is,∣G∣=[G:H]⋅∣H∣,\#G=\#(G/H)\cdot\#H,\qquad\text{that is,}\qquad |G|=[G:H]\cdot|H|,

by The Order of a Finite Group (i) and Cosets and the Index of a Subgroup (iv). This completes (i).

Since [G:H]∈N0⊆Z[G:H]\in\mathbb{N}_{0}\subseteq\mathbb{Z}, this identity exhibits ∣G∣|G| as the integer multiple k∣H∣k|H| of ∣H∣|H| with k=[G:H]k=[G:H], so ∣H∣|H| divides ∣G∣|G| by Divisibility of Integers (i). This is (ii).

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