Intermediately characteristic subgroup

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Definition

Symbol-free definition

A subgroup of a group is said to be intermediately characteristic if it is characteristic not only in the whole group but also in every intermediate subgroup.

Definition with symbols

A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is said to be intermediately characteristic if forany intermediate subgroup $K$ (such that $H\le K\le G$), $H$ is characteristic in $K$.

In terms of the intermediately operator

The subgroup property of being intermediately characteristic can be obtained by applying the intermediately operator to the subgroup property of being characteristic.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

• Isomorph-free subgroup
• Order-unique subgroup

Weaker properties

• Characteristic subgroup
• Potentially characteristic subgroup
• Normal subgroup

Related properties

• Image-closed characteristic subgroup

Metaproperties

Transitivity

NO: This subgroup property is not transitive: a subgroup with this property in a subgroup with this property, need not have the property in the whole group
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For full proof, refer: Intermediate characteristicity is not transitive

Trimness

This subgroup property is trim -- it is both trivially true (true for the trivial subgroup) and identity-true (true for a group as a subgroup of itself).
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Property operators

Right transiter

It turns out that any intermediately characteristic subgroup of a transfer-characteristic subgroup is again intermediately characteristic. This follows from some simple reasoning and the fact that characteristicity is itself transitive.

Hence, the right transiter of the property of being intermediately characteristic is weaker than the property of being transfer-characteristic.