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Abelian Groups - László Fuchs [Springer]

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8 Almost Free <strong>Groups</strong> 119<br />

with. In the other paper [1], a core class for @ 1 -freeness is discussed: a well-defined class of nonfree<br />

@ 1 -free groups of cardinality @ 1 such that every non-free @ 1 -free group of cardinality @ 1<br />

contains a subgroup from the class. Another interesting result is the existence of indecomposable<br />

@ 1 -free groups by Palyutin [1] (under CH) which was generalized to rigid @ 1 -free groups of<br />

cardinality @ 1 by Göbel–Shelah [2].<br />

Eda [4] shows that a group is @ 1 -free if and only if it is contained in Z .B/ for some<br />

Boolean lattice B. To illustrate the importance of @ 1 -freeness, we also mention several topological<br />

connections. L. Pontryagin proved that a connected compact abelian group G is locally connected<br />

exactly if its character group Char G is @ 1 -free, and J. Dixmier showed that it is arcwise connected<br />

if and only if Ext.Char G; Z/ D 0 (which is stronger than @ 1 -freeness). We also point out that<br />

for a compact connected group G, thenth homotopy group n .G/ D 0 for all n > 1, while<br />

1 .G/ D Hom.Char G; Z/ is always @ 1 -free.<br />

That @ n -free groups need not be @ nC1 -free was proved by Hill, Griffith, and then by Eklof.<br />

Mekler–Shelah [2] study regular cardinals for which -free implies strongly -free or C -free.<br />

Gregory [1] proved in L the most interesting Theorem 8.9. Assuming V = L, Rychkov [3] proves<br />

that for each uncountable regular, not weakly compact cardinal , thereexistp-groups A of final<br />

rank such that every subgroup C of cardinality

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