Quasi-minimal Abelian groups

Brenda Goldsmith, S. Óhógáin, S. Wallutis

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Abstract

An abelian group $G$ is said to be quasi-minimal (purely quasi-minimal, directly quasi-minimal) if it is isomorphic to all its subgroups (pure subgroups, direct summands, respectively) of the same cardinality as $G$. Obviously quasi-minimality implies pure quasi-minimality which in turn implies direct quasi-minimality, but we show that neither converse implication holds. We obtain a complete characterisation of quasi-minimal groups. In the purely quasi-minimal case, assuming GCH, a complete characterisation is also established. An independence result is proved for directly quasi-minimal groups.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Pages2185-2195
Number of pages11
Volume132
Edition8
ISBN (Electronic)1088-6826
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of the American Mathematical Society
PublisherAmerican Mathematical Society
ISSN (Print)0002-9939

Keywords

  • abelian group
  • quasi-minimal
  • purely quasi-minimal
  • directly quasi-minimal
  • GCH
  • independence result

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