Abelian groups with one \(\tau\)-adic relation (Q912985)

Let \(\tau\) be a type and \(Q_{\tau}\) be the algebra of \(\tau\)-adic numbers. If A is a torsionfree group of finite rank r and \(\{x_ 1,...,x_ r\}\) is any maximal linearly independent subset of A then the natural homomorphism \(A\to A_{\tau}\) of A into its \(\tau\)-adic completion \(A_{\tau}\) determines the submodule \[ \delta (A)=\{(\alpha_ 1,...,\alpha_ r)\in Q^ r_{\tau}| \quad \alpha_ 1x_ 1+...+\alpha_ rx_ r=0\quad in\quad A_{\tau}\} \] of \(\tau\)-relations in \(Q^ r_{\tau}\). The paper studies the properties of the class \({\mathcal F}\) of finite rank torsionfree groups A such that the module \(\delta(A)\) is cyclic. Among other results the groups from \({\mathcal F}\) are characterized up to quasi-isomorphism (Th.3.7) and pure subgroups of groups from \({\mathcal F}\) together with the corresponding factor-groups are described ({\S}{\S} 4, 5).