scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1429683

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Authors Barry J. Gardner

Publication date 21 June 2000

zbMATH Keywords

direct productsdirect sumsinjective Abelian groupslower radicalsproduct-closed radical classesradical classes of Abelian groupsshort exact sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Torsion theories, radicals (18E40) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25) Homological and categorical methods for abelian groups (20K40)

Review text

A radical class of Abelian groups is a non-empty class closed under homomorphic images, direct sums and extensions. Every set of Abelian groups is contained in a smallest radical class, called the lower radical of the set. It is known that the lower radical of a set is closed under countable products, and for many years the distinguished author has sought to determine radical classes closed under arbitrary products. Up to now, the only such classes known are the torsion-free \(S\)-divisible groups for some set \(S\) of primes, and hence are the lower radical class of a single rank 1 group. In this paper, the author shows that the lower radical class of the direct sum of the \(p\)-adic rationals and the \(q\)-adic rationals for distinct primes \(p\) and \(q\) fails to be closed under uncountable products. He also considers the problem of when the class of injectives relative to certain short exact sequences introduced by Nunke is a product-closed radical class.

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• Variations of purity in Abelian group theory
• Radical classes closed under products.
• Strict radicals and endomorphism rings.

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