characteristic group

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Originally Posted by dori1123

If H is the unique subgroup of a given order in a group G, prove H is characteristic in G.

Let $\theta$ be an automorphism of $G$ then $|\theta (H)| = |H|$ - why? But $\phi (H)$ is a subgroup of $H$ because homomorphism images of subgroups are subgroups. And by uniqueness we have $\phi (H) = H$ . Therefore, $H$ is invariant under all automorphism i.e. it is a characteristic subgroup.