When is an Abelian group isomorphic to its endomorphism group? (Q881138)

The authors develop necessary and sufficient conditions for an Abelian group \(A\) to be isomorphic to its endomorphism group \(\text{End}(A)\). This was done in the 1970's by \textit{A. M. Sebel'din} for the classes of completely decomposable Abelian groups [Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Mat. 1973, No. 7(134), 77-84 (1973; Zbl 0277.20072)] and vector groups [Groups and Modules, 70-77 Izd-vo Tomsk. Univ., Tomsk (1976)]. Presently this problem is investigated for the classes of periodic Abelian groups, divisible Abelian groups, nonreduced Abelian groups, and reduced algebraically compact Abelian groups. The first three results are: Theorem 1. A periodic Abelian group \(A\) group is isomorphic to its endomorphism group if and only if \(A\) is cyclic. Theorem 2. A divisible Abelian group \(A\) is isomorphic to its endomorphism group if and only if \(A\) is isomorphic to the additive group of rational numbers. Theorem 3. A nonreduced Abelian group \(A\) is isomorphic to its endomorphism group if and only if the divisible part of \(A\) is isomorphic to the rationals and the reduced part is either trivial or finite and cyclic. In general, we must have that \(A\cong\text{End}(A)\) implies that \(\text{End(End}(A))\cong\text{End}(A)\). The last three results of the paper give conditions on when the converse of this statement holds.