A characterization of countable Butler groups
We complete the characterization of Ext(G,ℤ) for any torsion-free abelian group G assuming Gödel’s axiom of constructibility plus there is no weakly compact cardinal. In particular, we prove in (V = L) that, for a singular cardinal ν of uncountable cofinality which is less than the first weakly compact cardinal and for every sequence of cardinals satisfying (where Π is the set of all primes), there is a torsion-free abelian group G of size ν such that equals the p-rank of Ext(G,ℤ) for every...
It is shown, under ZFC, that a -group has the interesting property of being -prebalanced in every torsion-free abelian group in which it is a pure subgroup. As a consequence, we obtain alternate proofs of some well-known theorems on -groups.
Un gruppo abeliano senza torsione ed indecomponibile è detto iperindecomponibile se tutti i sottogruppi propri del suo inviluppo iniettivo che lo contengono sono indecomponibili. In questo lavoro si caratterizza la classe dei gruppi iperindecomponibili per mezzo di loro proprietà locali. I gruppi iperindecomponibili omogenei sono caratterizzati tramite la proprietà «factor-splitting».
Let G be an Abelian group and let μ: A → G and ν: B → G be finitely additive measures (charges) defined on fields A and B of subsets of a set X. It is assumed that μ and ν agree on A ∩ B, i.e. they are consistent. The existence of common extensions of μ and ν is investigated, and conditions on A and B facilitating such extensions are given.
Generalizing the notion of the almost free group we introduce almost Butler groups. An almost -group of singular cardinality is a -group. Since almost -groups have preseparative chains, the same result in regular cardinality holds under the additional hypothesis that is a -group. Some other results characterizing -groups within the classes of almost -groups and almost -groups are obtained. A theorem of stating that a group of weakly compact cardinality having a -filtration consisting...
Let R be a subring of the rationals. We want to investigate self splitting R-modules G, that is, such that . For simplicity we will call such modules splitters (see [10]). Also other names like stones are used (see a dictionary in Ringel’s paper [8]). Our investigation continues [5]. In [5] we answered an open problem by constructing a large class of splitters. Classical splitters are free modules and torsion-free, algebraically compact ones. In [5] we concentrated on splitters which are larger...