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Abelian Groups - László Fuchs [Springer]

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332 10 Torsion <strong>Groups</strong><br />

with basic subgroup B D˚n B n ,whereB n D˚n Z.p n /.ThenrkB D fin rk B D ,<br />

thus jAj D @ 0<br />

—as it is clear from Theorem 3.2; here, @ 0<br />

>by Jech [J]. Now<br />

if A D˚i2I C i , then by Theorem 4.3 there is an integer m such that almost all of<br />

p m C i vanish. Obviously, the cardinality of a p m -bounded summand cannot exceed<br />

m

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