If $Y$ is a subgroup of a topological group $(X,*,\cal T)$ then $Y$ is open if and only if $\operatorname{int}Y$ is not empty.

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A topological group is a group $(X,*)$ equipped with a topology $\cal T$ with resepct the functions $$ p:X\times X\ni (x_1,x_2)\longrightarrow x_1*x_2\in X\quad\text{and}\quad s:X\ni x\longrightarrow x^{-1}\in X $$ are continuous.

Let be $(X,*,\cal T)$ a topological group. So first of all we prove that if $y\in\operatorname{int}Y$ with $Y\mathcal P(X)$ then there exists a neighborhood $V_e$ of the identity element $e$ such that $$ y*V_e\subseteq Y $$ So first of all we observe that the identity $$ e*y=y $$ holds for any $y\in\operatorname{int}Y$ so that we conclude that $$ (e,y)\in p^{-1}[\operatorname{int}Y] $$ Now $p$ is continuous so that $p^{-1}[\operatorname{int}Y]$ there exists open neighborhoods $A_e$ and $A_y$ of $e$ and $y$ respectively such that $$ (e,y)\in A_e\times A_y\subseteq p^{-1}[\operatorname{int}Y] $$ that is such that $$ y=e*y\in (A_e*A_y)\subseteq p\big[p^{-1}[\operatorname{int}Y]\big]\subseteq\operatorname{int}Y $$ So through the identity $$ e*y=y $$ we conclude that $$ y\in(y*A_e)\subseteq A_y*A_e\subseteq\operatorname{int}Y\subseteq Y $$ as we desired.

Now we let to prove that a subgroup $Y$ of $X$ is open if and only if its interior $\operatorname{int}Y$ is not empty. So if $\operatorname{int}Y$ is not emptyset then there exists $y_0\in\operatorname{int}Y$ so that there exists a neighrborhood $V_e$ of $e$ such that $$ y_0*V_e\subseteq Y $$ Now $Y$ is a group and so if $y\in Y$ then we observe that $$ y*Y\subseteq Y $$ so that by the inclusion $$ y_0*V_e\subseteq Y $$ we conclude that $$ y*V_e=(y*y_0^{-1})*y_0*V_e\subseteq y*Y\subseteq Y $$ and thus if $y*V_e$ was open the statement follows but unfortunately, I believe that this is not true although my topology text suggests to use the last inclusion. So how prove the statement? pheraps is it false? could someone help me, please?

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To follow the suggested proof by azif00

First of all we prove that the function $$ f_{x_0}:X\ni x\longrightarrow x_0*x\in X $$ is a homeomorphism for any $x_0\in X$. So first of all we observe that the map $$ \iota_0:X\owns x\longrightarrow(x_0,x)\in X\times X $$ is an embedding so that by the identity $$ f_{x_0}=p\circ\iota_0 $$ we conclude that $f_{x_0}$ is continuous and thus by the identity $$ f_{x_0}\circ f_{x_0^{-1}}=\text{id}_X=f_{x_0^{-1}}\circ f_{x_0} $$ we finally conclude that $f_{x_0}$ is a homeomorphism. Now we suppose that for $y_0\in Y_0$ with $Y_0\in\mathcal P(X)$ there exists a neighborhood $N_e$ of $e$ such that $$ y_0*N_e\subseteq Y_0 $$ So through the identity $$ f_{y_0}[N_e]=y_0*N_e $$ we observe that $y_0*N_e$ is a neighborhood of $y_0$ so that if the last inclusion holds then $y_0$ is an interior point of $Y_0$ so that by shown into the question we conclude that a point $y_0\in Y_0$ is an interior point if and only if there exists a neighborhood $N_e$ of $e$ such that $$ y_0*N_e\subseteq Y_0 $$ So by what shown we conclude that the inclusion $$ y*V_e $$ proves that any $y\in Y$ is a interior point so that $Y$ is open.