On locally free Abelian groups. (Q2387831)
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On locally free Abelian groups. (English)
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5 September 2005
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An Abelian group is called `locally free' if all its subgroups of finite rank are free. In the present paper it is proved that a torsion-free group is a locally free group if and only if it is a direct limit of an inductive system of finitely generated free groups such that each map in this system is an embedding onto a direct summand (such a system is called `simple'). Using this characterization, the author constructs a locally free group which has no free direct summands.
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free Abelian groups
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locally free groups
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groups of countable rank
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countably free Abelian groups
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inductive systems of groups
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