Cellular covers of Abelian groups.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Cellular covers of Abelian groups.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1179.20049
author: László Fuchs
author: Rüdiger Göbel
published in: Results in Mathematics
publication date: 2009-06-17T00:00:00Z
review text: Cellular covers of modules and in particular groups have been under intensive investigation recently. For instance every cotorsion-free group can be the kernel of a cellular cover of arbitrary large cardinality by a result due to Buckner and Dugas. Moreover, surjective cellular covers of divisible Abelian groups have been completely characterized by several researchers including the second author. Giving a new and simpler proof of this result, the two authors mainly concentrate in the present paper on reduced Abelian groups. On the one hand several classes of Abelian groups that allow only the trivial cellular covers are listed (e.g. the reduced cotorsion groups). On the other hand, it is shown that even rank one groups may have arbitrarily large cellular covers. In the last section possible kernels of cellular covers are fully described as direct sums of two groups: one is a reduced torsion-free module over the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-adic completion of the integers (whose structure is described) and the other is a cotorsion-free group. The paper is a substantial contribution to the investigation of cellular covers of Abelian groups.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K21
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55P60
zbMATH DE Number: 5565950
zbMATH Keywords: divisible Abelian groups
zbMATH Keywords: reduced Abelian groups
zbMATH Keywords: cotorsion groups
zbMATH Keywords: cellular covers
zbMATH Keywords: algebraically compact groups
reviewed by: Lutz Strüngmann
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00025-008-0327-z
OpenAlex ID: W2015090241
DOI: 10.1007/S00025-008-0327-Z
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