ACU-closed group property

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This article defines a group metaproperty: a property that can be evaluated to true/false for any group property
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Definition

Symbol-free definition

A group property is termed ACU-closed if, whenever there is an ascending chain of subgroups in a group, each having the group property, the union of those subgroups also has the property.

Definition with symbols

A group property p is termed ACU-closed if, for any group G, any nonempty totally ordered set I, and any ascending chain Hi of subgroups of G indexed by ordinals iI such that HiHj for i<j, the subgroup:

iIHi

also satisfies property p.

Relation with other metaproperties

Stronger metaproperties