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If you are working with real numbers, or even complex numbers, pq is the same as qp, so the result is the same as 2pq. If you use some multiplication that is NOT commutative (such as, when you multiply matrices), you can't simplify the expression.

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It is Pq + qp. There is no justification to assume that the operation in the group is Abelian.

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