(* (c) Copyright 2006-2016 Microsoft Corporation and Inria.                  *)
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(*   This files contains the proofs of several key properties of commutators, *)
(* including the Hall-Witt identity and the Three Subgroup Lemma.             *)
(*   The definition and notation for both pointwise and set wise commutators  *)
(* ([~x, y, ...] and [~: A, B ,...], respectively) are given in fingroup.v    *)
(* This file defines the derived group series:                                *)
(*           G^`(0) ==  G                                                     *)
(*       G^`(n.+1) == [~: G^`(n), G^`(n)]                                     *)
(* as several classical results involve the (first) derived group G^`(1),     *)
(* such as the equivalence H <| G /\ G / H abelian <-> G^`(1) \subset H.      *)
(* The connection between the derived series and solvable groups will only be *)
(* established in nilpotent.v, however.                                       *)
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Set Implicit Arguments.
Unset Strict Implicit.
Unset Printing Implicit Defensive.
Definition derived_at_rec n (gT : finGroupType) (A : {set gT}) :=
iter n (fun B => [~: B, B]) A.
(* Note: 'nosimpl' MUST be used outside of a section -- the end of section   *)
(* "cooking" destroys it.                                                    *)
Definition derived_at := nosimpl derived_at_rec.
Arguments derived_at n%N {gT} A%g.
Notation "G ^` ( n )" := (derived_at n G) : group_scope.
Section DerivedBasics.
Variables gT : finGroupType.
Implicit Type A : {set gT}.
Implicit Types G : {group gT}.

Lemma dergSn n A : A^`(n.+1) = [~: A^`(n), A^`(n)]. Proof. by []. Qed.