Elliptic subgroup

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This subgroup property is a finitarily tautological subgroup property: when the ambient group is a finite group, the property is satisfied.
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Definition

Symbol-free definition

A subgroup of a group is termed elliptic if it forms an elliptic pair of subgroups with every subgroup of the group.

Definition with symbols

A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is termed elliptic if for any subgroup $K$ of $G$, $(H,K)$ form an elliptic pair of subgroups. In other words, there exists an $n$ such that:

$\langle H,K \rangle = (HK)^n := HKHKHK \ldots HK$

where each is written $n$ times.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

• Permutable subgroup
• Subgroup of finite index