Characteristic Subgroups

Summary We formalize in Mizar [1], [2] the notion of characteristic subgroups using the definition found in Dummit and Foote [3], as subgroups invariant under automorphisms from its parent group. Along the way, we formalize notions of Automorphism and results concerning centralizers. Much of what we formalize may be found sprinkled throughout the literature, in particular Gorenstein [4] and Isaacs [5]. We show all our favorite subgroups turn out to be characteristic: the center, the derived subgroup, the commutator subgroup generated by characteristic subgroups, and the intersection of all subgroups satisfying a generic group property.