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==History==
* [[normal equals potentially characteristic]]: A [[normal subgroup]] <math>H</math> of a [[group]] <math>G</math> is potentially characteristic: there exists a group <math>K</math> containing <math>G</math> such that <math>H</math> is a [[characteristic subgroup]] of <math>K</math>.
 
* [[group property-conditionally potentially characteristic subgroup]]: This is the notion of being potentially characteristic with respect to a group property.
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* [[potentially characteristic subgroups characterization problem]]
 
* [[potentially operator]]: This takes as input a subgroup property and outputs the property of being a subgroup that can satisfy the property in some ambient group.
==Definition==
 
===Symbol-free definition===
 
A subgroup of a group is termed '''potentially characteristic''' if there is an embedding of the bigger group in some group such that, in that embedding the subgroup becomes [[characteristic subgroup|characteristic]].
 
===Definition with symbols===
 
A subgroup <math>H</math> of a group <math>G</math> is termed ''potentially characteristic'' in <math>G</math> if there exists a group <math>K</math> containing <math>G</math> such that <math>H</math> is [[characteristic subgroup|characteristic]] in <math>K</math>.
 
{{obtainedbyapplyingthe|potentially operator|characteristic subgroup}}
 
The property of being potentially characteristic is obtained by applying the [[potentially operator]] to the property of being [[characteristic subgroup|characteristic]]. The potentially operator is an idempotent ascendant monotone operator.
 
==Relation with other properties==
 
===Stronger properties===
 
* [[Weaker than::Characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Intermediately characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Strongly potentially characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Potentially verbal subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Potentially fully characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Amalgam-characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Weaker than::Finite normal subgroup]]: {{proofat|[[Finite normal implies potentially characteristic]]}}
* [[Weaker than::Central subgroup]]: {{proofat|[[Central implies potentially characteristic]]}}
* Subgroup contained in a member of the [[upper central series]] : {{proofat|[[Subgroup contained in member of upper central series is potentially characteristic]]}}
 
===Weaker properties===
 
* [[Stronger than::Potentially relatively characteristic subgroup]]
* [[Stronger than::Normal subgroup]]: {{proofat|[[Potentially characteristic implies normal]]}}
 
===Related properties===
 
* [[Finite-potentially characteristic subgroup]]
 
===Conjecture of equalling normality===
 
{{conjecturedtoequal|normality}}
 
{{further|[[NPC conjecture]]}}
 
Since the potentially operator is an idempotent monotone ascendant operator, and the property of being [[normal subgroup|normal]] is a fixed point of this operator, every potentially characteristic subgroup  is normal. The converse question: ''is every normal subgroup potentially characteristic?'' has not yet been answered. However, it is true that any [[finite normal subgroup]] is potentially characteristic, and it is also true that any normal subgroup of a [[nilpotent group]] (and more generally, any normal subgroup contained in a member of the [[upper central series]]) is potentially characteristic. {{proofat|[[Finite normal implies potentially characteristic]],[[Central implies potentially characteristic]]}}
 
==Metaproperties==
 
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{{intersection-closed-open}}
 
Is the intersection of two potentially characteristic subgroups potentially characteristic?
 
==Property operators==
 
===Left transiter===
 
{{further|[[Characteristic of potentially characteristic implies potentially characteristic]]}}
Every characteristic subgroup of a potentially characteristic subgroup is potentially characteristic. In fact, the same supergroup works.
 
That is, suppose <math>M \le G \le H</math> with <math>M</math> characteristic in <math>G</math> and <math>G</math> potentially characteristic in <math>H</math>. Then, there exists a group <math>K</math> containing <math>H</math> such that both <math>G</math> and <math>H</math> are [[characteristic subgroup|characteristic]] in <math>K</math>. Then, we also have that <math>M</math> is characteristic in <math>K</math>, and hence <math>M</math> is potentially characteristic in <math>H</math>.

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