Fuchs' problem for endomorphisms of abelian groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.08.017MaRDI QIDQ6051035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sunil K. Chebolu, Keir Lockridge

Publication date 19 September 2023

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11815

zbMATH Keywords

abelian groupendomorphismgroup of units

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Torsion groups, primary groups and generalized primary groups (20K10) Automorphisms, homomorphisms, endomorphisms, etc. for abelian groups (20K30)

Review text

The prominent algebraist László Fuchs posed the important question \textit{of which abelian groups arise as the group of units in an associative ring}? In the paper under review, the authors investigate a slightly related (and rather more approachable) question: \textit{for such realizable groups \(G\), when is there a ring \(R\) (possibly associative) with unit group \(G\) such that every group endomorphism of \(G\) is induced by a ring endomorphism of \(R\)}? They answer this question for four common classes of commutative groups: torsion-free abelian groups, abelian groups of odd order, torsion abelian groups and finitely generated abelian groups (see the substantial Theorem 1.1 which summarizes all main results in the article under review). The paper is very well written and contains too many interesting examples which clarify some more complicated situations. At some places in the text are used group rings, which makes the work quite intriguing.

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(6)

• Finite groups of units of finite characteristic rings
• On a problem of Călugăreanu, Chekhlov and Krylov regarding pure endomorphic images of abelian groups
• Fuchs' problem for indecomposable abelian groups
• Fuchs’ problem 34 for mixed Abelian groups
• Fuchs’ problem for linear groups
• Fuchs' problem for endomorphisms of nonabelian groups

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