When Does Almost Free Imply Free? (For Groups, Transversals, etc.)

DOI10.2307/2152733zbMath0819.20059OpenAlexW4254074892MaRDI QIDQ4313887

Menachem Magidor, Saharon Shelah

Publication date: 24 August 1995

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2152733

zbMATH Keywords

consistencyforcingregular cardinalscombinatorial principlealmost free Abelian groupsalmost free nonfree Abelian groupsalmost free nonfree groupsmodel of ZFC + G.C.H.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of logic to group theory (20A15) Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Torsion-free groups, infinite rank (20K20) Torsion-free groups, finite rank (20K15) Ordinal and cardinal numbers (03E10) Model-theoretic forcing (03C25)

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