On radicals and products (Q1066278)

An abelian group G is called cotorsion-free if G is torsion-free, reduced and, for each prime p, G does not contain a copy of the p-adic integers. The authors construct, for every cotorsion-free group G, a slender, \(\aleph_ 1\)-free abelian group A such that \(Hom(A,G)=0\). This is used to solve some open problems on radicals and torsion theories of abelian groups.