Isomorph-automorphic subgroup
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Definition
Symbol-free definition
A subgroup of a group is termed isomorph-automorphic if given any other isomorphic subgroup, there is an automorphism of the whole group, mapping the subgroup isomorphically to the other one.
Definition with symbols
A subgroup of a group
is termed isomorph-automorphic if whenever there exists a subgroup
of
such that
and
are isomorphic groups, there exists an automorphism
of
such that
.
Examples
In a finite cyclic group, every subgroup is isomorph-automorphic (in fact, every subgroup is isomorph-free: no two subgroups are isomorphic).
Similarly, in a finite elementary Abelian group, every subgroup is isomorph-automorphic. That's because given any two subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space that have the same dimension, there is an automorphism of the whole space taking one to the other.
By Sylow's theorem, every Sylow subgroup is isomorph-automorphic.
On the other hand, many subgroups are not isomorph-automorphic:
- In
, the group of integers, any nontrivial subgroup is of the form
,
, hence is isomorphic to
. However, there is clearly no automorphism of
mapping it to a proper subgroup.
- Any infinite-dimensional vector space is isomorphic to a subspace of codimension one, but there is no automorphism mapping the whole space to such a subspace.
- In the direct product
, the direct factor
is isomorphic to the subgroup of multiples of 2 in the direct factor
. However, there is no automorphism taking the first to the second.
- In the dihedral group of order eight, the center is of order two, and any subgroup generated by a reflection has order two, so they are isomorphic. However, there is no automorphism taking the center to a subgroup generated by a reflection.