Join-closedness is left residual-preserved

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This article gives the statement, and possibly proof, of a subgroup metaproperty (i.e., Intersection-closed subgroup property (?)) satisfying a subgroup metametaproperty (i.e., Left residual-preserved subgroup metaproperty (?))
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Statement

Property-theoretic statement

The Left residual operator for composition (?) of an intersection-closed subgroup property by any subgroup property is again intersection-closed.

Related facts

Similar facts about being left residual-preserved

Some similar results about being left residual-preserved:

Similar facts about being right residual-preserved

Any fixed-subgroup-expressible subgroup metaproperty is right residual-preserved. Instances of this are:

Proof

Hands-on proof

Given: A join-closed subgroup property p, a subgroup property q. Let r be the left residual of p by q.

To prove: r is join-closed.

Proof: Suppose r is not join-closed. Then, there exists a group G with a nonempty collection of subgroups Hi,iI such that each Hi satisfies property r but the join of the His does not satisfy property r.

Let H be the join of the His. Then, by the definition of left residual, there exists a group K containing G such that G has property q in K and H does not have property p in K.

Now, since each of the Hi has property r in G, and G has property q in K, we obtain that the Hi all have property p in K. Thus, we have a collection of subgroups of K that have property p in K but whose join does not have property p in K.

Property-theoretic proof

This proof directly follows from facts (1) and (2).