A maximal subgroup of a given group is a subgroup which is not all of and not contained in any other subgroup of .
Hence a maximal subgroup is a maximal element of the lattice of subgroups after removing the trivial subgroup itself. More concisely it is a coatom of ‘s subgroup lattice.
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