# Extensibility operator

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## Definition

### Symbol-free definition

The extensibility operator is a map from the function property space to itself that takes as input a function property $p$ and outputs the property of being a function that can, for any embedding in a bigger group, be extended to a function satisfying property $p$ in that bigger group.

Here by function we mean a function from any group to itself, and by function property we mean a property over the collection of all functions.

### Definition with symbols

The extensibility operator $E$ is a map from the function property space to itself that takes as input a function property $p$ and outputs a function property $q = E(p)$ defined as follows:

$f: G \to G$ satisfies property $q$ if and only if for every group $H$ containing $G$, there is a function $f': H \to H$ satisfying $p$ such that the restriction of $f'$ to $G$ is $f$.

### In terms of the qualified extensibility operator

For the qualified extensibility operator, we replace the any embedding with any embedding satisfying a given subgroup property. Thus, the extensibility operator is a special case of the qualified extensibility operator where the qualifying subgroup property is the tautology.

## Relation with other operators

If $p_1 \le p_2$ are function properties, then $E(p_1) \le E(p_2)$.

Any function satisfying property $E(p)$ also satisfies property $p$. That is, $E(p) \le p$.

## Fixed points

A function property that is invariant under the extensibility operator is termed an extensibility-stable function property. Thus, for instance, the property of being an inner automorphism is an extensibility-stable function property.

## Effect of metaoperators

### Iteration

The extensibility operator is not in general an idempotent operator, and we can thus apply the iteration metaoperator to it. For any ordinal $\alpha$, the $\alpha$-extensibility operator is defined inductively as follows:

• When $\alpha = \beta + 1$, then the property operator $\alpha$-extensibility is obtained by composing the xtensibility operator wit the $\beta$-extensibility operator.
• When $\alpha$ is a limit ordinal, then the $\alpha$-extensibility operator is the logical conjunction of the $\gamma$-extensibility operators for all $\gamma < \alpha$.