On cosmall Abelian groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2007.05.009MaRDI QIDQ2466932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oren Kolman, B. Goldsmith

Publication date 16 January 2008

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.05.009

zbMATH Keywords

Abelian groupscosmall groupscotorsion-free groupsdirect productsstrongly compact cardinals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results (03E35) Large cardinals (03E55) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25) Homological and categorical methods for abelian groups (20K40)

Review text

In the present paper the authors investigate what happens with Abelian groups with dual properties of some well known homological characterizations of (self-)small Abelian groups (modules). More precisely, an Abelian group \(G\) is called `cosmall' if \(\Hom(\prod_{i\in I}A_i,G)\) and \(\prod_{i\in I}\Hom(A_i,G)\) are naturally isomorphic for all families \((A_i\mid i\in I)\). If we ask that the mentioned isomorphism is valid for families \((A_i\mid i\in I)\) with \(A_i\cong G\) for all \(i\), then \(G\) is called `self-cosmall'. The authors investigate basic properties of these groups, and they prove that all these groups are torsion-free (Theorem 2.2 and Proposition 3.2), products of cosmall groups are cosmall (Proposition 2.3). Moreover in Section 2 it is proved that some very important classes of torsion-free groups are not cosmall, and these results suggest that there are no non-trivial cosmall groups and non-trivial self-cosmall groups. This interesting result is proved in the last section of the paper under the assumptions that there exists a strongly compact cardinal for cosmall groups (Theorem 3.3), respectively there exists a proper class of strongly compact cardinals (Corollary 3.5). As the authors mention in the end of the paper, the questions for the existence of non-trivial cosmall groups or of non-trivial self-cosmall groups in ZFC or in ZFC + V=L are still open.

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