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The Product of Two Sums over Finite Index Sets is a Sum over the Cartesian Product

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Let KK be a field, let FF and GG be nonempty finite sets, and let a:FKa:F\to K and b:GKb:G\to K be maps. Let F×GF\times G be the Cartesian product of FF and GG, formed with the ordered pair; it is nonempty, and it is finite by claim 1 of Finiteness of Cartesian Products, Tuple Sets, and Permutation Sets. For pF×Gp\in F\times G write p1Fp_{1}\in F and p2Gp_{2}\in G for the unique elements with p=(p1,p2)p=(p_{1},p_{2}), unique by Characteristic Property of the Ordered Pair. Sums over a finite index set are those of Sum over a Finite Index Set.

Then

(xFa(x))(yGb(y))=pF×Ga(p1)b(p2).\Bigl(\sum_{x\in F}a(x)\Bigr)\Bigl(\sum_{y\in G}b(y)\Bigr)=\sum_{p\in F\times G}a(p_{1})\,b(p_{2}).
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