Inertial automorphisms of an Abelian group. (Q442638)

Let \(A\) be an infinite Abelian group, \(\gamma\in\Aut(A)\) and \(\Gamma\) the subgroup generated by \(\gamma\). The authors call \(\gamma\) a power automorphism if it fixes every subgroup of \(A\), an almost power automorphism if for every subgroup \(X\) of \(A\), the intersection of the images of \(X\) under \(\Gamma\) has finite index in \(X\), and inertial if for every subgroup \(X\), the intersection of \(X\) and \(X^\gamma\) has finite index in both \(X\) and \(X^\gamma\). They study the relationship between these properties, and characterize the automorphisms which possess them in the cases that \(A\) is torsion, torsion-free or mixed. They also extend their results by replacing \(\Gamma\) by a finitely generated subgroup of \(\Aut(A)\).