Extending isomorphisms to automorphisms (Q1106339)

Let K be a finitely generated abelian group, A, B proper subgroups of K, \(\phi\) an isomorphism of A onto B. The paper studies conditions under which \(\phi\) can be extended to an automorphism of an abelian group X containing K. The main Theorem of the paper proves that given K finitely generated abelian and \(\phi\) : \(A\to B\) an isomorphism between the proper subgroups A, B of K, then there exists an abelian group X containing K and an automorphism \({\bar \phi}\) of X extending \(\phi\) iff there exists \(H\leq D\) of finite index in D such that \(H\phi =H\), where D is a subgroup of K depending only on \(\phi\) (see the paper for the definition).