Very decomposable Abelian groups

DOI10.1007/BF01160951MaRDI QIDQ1103054zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rüdiger Göbel, Martin Ziegler

Publication date 1989

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/174021

zbMATH Keywords

almost decomposable abelian groupcofinality \(\omega \)direct sumsrealization theorem for topological ringstopological endomorphism ring of abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large cardinals (03E55) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25) Automorphisms, homomorphisms, endomorphisms, etc. for abelian groups (20K30)

Review text

An abelian group G is called almost decomposable if G decomposes non- trivially into direct sums \(G=\oplus _{i\in \kappa}G_ i\) for all cardinals \(\kappa <| G|\). Moreover G is decomposable, if G decomposes into a direct sum of \(| G|\) non-trivial summands. Answering an open question for any infinite cardinal \(\lambda\) we construct an almost decomposable abelian group of cardinality \(\lambda\) which is not decomposable. The most interesting case is the one for \(\lambda\) of cofinality \(\omega\). The proof is divided into two parts. Firstly, we derive a realization theorem for topological rings as topological endomorphism rings of abelian groups. Observe that the known realization results are not applicable because of their hypothesis \(\lambda =\kappa ^{\aleph _ 0}\), hence \(cf(\lambda)>\omega\). Secondly, we construct a topological ring which reflects the desired decomposition properties.

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