Uniformization and the diversity of Whitehead groups

DOI10.1007/BF02808073zbMATH Open0806.20044arXivmath/9204219OpenAlexW1971918043MaRDI QIDQ1802789FDOQ1802789

Authors: S. Shelah, Paul C. Eklof, Alan H. Mekler 

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The connections between Whitehead groups and uniformization properties were investigated by the third author in [Sh:98]. In particular it was essentially shown there that there is a non-free Whitehead (respectively, aleph_1-coseparable) group of cardinality aleph_1 if and only if there is a ladder system on a stationary subset of omega_1 which satisfies 2-uniformization (respectively, omega-uniformization). These techniques allowed also the proof of various independence and consistency results about Whitehead groups, for example that it is consistent that there is a non-free Whitehead group of cardinality aleph_1 but no non-free aleph_1-coseparable group. However, some natural questions remained open, among them the following two: (i) Is it consistent that the class of W-groups of cardinality aleph_1 is exactly the class of strongly aleph_1-free groups of cardinality aleph_1 ? (ii) If every strongly aleph_1-free group of cardinality aleph_1 is a W-group, are they also all aleph_1-coseparable? In this paper we use the techniques of uniformization to answer the first question in the negative and give a partial affirmative answer to the second question.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9204219

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zbMATH Keywords

uniformizationfree subgroupladder systemWhitehead groupcountable subgroup\(\lambda\)-coloring\(\aleph_ 1\)-free groupcontinuous chain of countable subgroupsstrongly \(\aleph_ 1\)-free group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Torsion-free groups, infinite rank (20K20) Subgroups of abelian groups (20K27)

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