The weight of a Butler group

DOI10.1007/BF02572309MaRDI QIDQ1329038zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Edgar Müller, Otto Mutzbauer

Publication date 21 July 1994

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/174638

zbMATH Keywords

Butler groupschain of pure subgroupscompletely decomposable groupsRichman typesum of typestorsion-free abelian groups of finite ranktype invariantsweight

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Torsion-free groups, finite rank (20K15) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25) Subgroups of abelian groups (20K27)

Review text

There are several type invariants of torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank, the inner, outer, sum, Richman and hypertypes. The sum type of a torsion-free abelian group of finite rank for instance is the sum of types of the quotients of a chain of pure subgroups with ranks increasing by 1. The weight of a torsion-free abelian group of finite rank is defined as the map which maps a pure subgroup to its sum type. This type invariant ``weight covers all known type invariants. Goeters, Vinsonhaler, and Wickless proved in 1989 that the Richman type can be derived from the weight. In so far the weight can be considered the most precise invariant of torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank, given in terms of types. Here the calculation with types has been developed considerably and is applied to Butler groups, i.e. torsion-free homomorphic images of completely decomposable groups of finite rank, a predestined group class in this context. The main result is a characterization of Butler groups (and of almost completely decomposable groups) by type conditions only.

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