On kernels of cellular covers

DOI10.4171/GGD/20MaRDI QIDQ2469767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emmanuel D. Farjoun, Rüdiger Göbel, S. Shelah, Yoav Segev

Publication date 7 February 2008

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702294

zbMATH Keywords

cellular coverfree abelian groupinfinite cardinal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Torsion-free groups, infinite rank (20K20) Extensions of abelian groups (20K35) Localization and completion in homotopy theory (55P60)

Abstract: In the present paper we continue to examine cellular covers of groups, focusing on the cardinality and the structure of the kernel K of the cellular map G-> M . We show that in general a torsion free reduced abelian group M may have a proper class of non-isomorphic cellular covers. In other words, the cardinality of the kernels is unbounded. In the opposite direction we show that if the kernel of a cellular cover of any group M has certain ``freeness properties, then its cardinality must be bounded.

Review text

A group homomorphism \(c: G \rightarrow M\) is a cellular cover if every homomorphism \(G \rightarrow M\) factors uniquely through~\(c\). Such a map can be seen as the value on \(M\) of some \(A\)-cellular approximation functor \(\text{ cell}_A M \rightarrow M\), hence the name. The main result of this article is the existence of certain abelian groups for which the cellular covers form a whole class (and not a set). More precisely the authors construct for any given infinite cardinal \(\lambda\) a torsion free and reduced abelian group \(M\) of cardinality \(\lambda\) and for any infinite cardinal \(\kappa\) another abelian group \(K\) of cardinality \(\kappa\) which can be realized as the kernel of a cellular cover \(G \rightarrow M\). One of the key points in the construction is that both \(M\) and \(K\) have very few endomorphisms. This can be compared to the result \textit{R. Göbel, J. L. Rodríguez}, and \textit{S. Shelah} obtained for localizations of finite groups in [J. Reine Angew. Math. 550, 1--24 (2002; Zbl 1009.20021)].

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