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Abelian Groups - László Fuchs [Springer]

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7 Subgroups of Totally Projective p-<strong>Groups</strong> 381<br />

Lemma 7.7 (Hill [17]). Given a separative subgroup A, and a subgroup X of G,<br />

there is a subgroup B of G such that<br />

(i) X B,<br />

(ii) jBj jXj@ 0 ; and<br />

(iii) AkB:<br />

In particular, every countable subset of G can be embedded in a countable subgroup<br />

B of G such that AkB.<br />

Proof. Set B 0 D X: For each x 2 B 0 choose elements a n .x/ 2 A .n

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