Tight subgroups in almost completely decomposable groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Tight subgroups in almost completely decomposable groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 0949.20039
author: Adolf Mader
author: M. A. Ould-Beddi
author: Khalid Benabdallah
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2000-08-13T00:00:00Z
review text: A completely decomposable (cd) group is a direct sum of rank one groups, that is, groups isomorphic to additive subgroups of the rationals. An almost completely decomposable (acd) group is a torsion-free Abelian group that contains a completely decomposable subgroup of finite index. If \(A\) is a cd subgroup of the acd group \(X\) for which \(|X/A|\) is minimal, then \(A\) is called a regulating subgroup and \(\text{rgi}(X)=|X/A|\) is the regulating index. In this case the set of types of rank one summands of \(A\) is called the critical typeset of \(X\). If \(A\) is a cd subgroup that is maximal with respect to containment, then \(A\) is called a tight subgroup of \(X\). The first notable result is a simple characterization of tight subgroups. Proposition 2.7. Let \(X\) be an acd group and \(A\) a completely decomposable subgroup of finite index. Then \(A\) is tight in \(X\) if and only if every rank one summand of \(A\) is pure in \(X\). As one might expect, the index of a tight subgroup bears a relationship to the regulating index. Corollary 2.10. Let \(X\) be an acd group and \(A\) a tight subgroup. Then the prime factors of \([X:A]\) divide \(\text{rgi}(X)\) and \(\text{rgi}(X)\) divides \([X:A]\). It is shown how to construct examples of tight subgroups that are not regulating. Then the intersection of all tight subgroups is characterized in terms of the Burkhardt invariants of the acd group \(X\): \(\beta_\rho(X)=\text{rgi}(X^\#(\rho))\). Here \(X^\#(\rho)\) is the pure subgroup generated by the elements of \(X\) of type greater than \(\rho\). Corollary 3.3. Let \(X\) be an acd group. Then the intersection of all of the tight subgroups of \(X\) is \(\text{Core}(X)=\sum\{X(\rho):\rho\in T_{\text{cr}}(X)\) and \(\beta_\rho(X)=1\}\). All tight subgroups are regulating only in very special cases. Corollary 3.4. Every tight subgroup of an acd group \(X\) is a regulating subgroup if and only if \(X\) has a unique regulating subgroup. A final section discusses the q…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20K25
zbMATH DE Number: 1423624
zbMATH Keywords: completely decomposable groups
zbMATH Keywords: almost completely decomposable groups
zbMATH Keywords: direct sums of rank one groups
zbMATH Keywords: subgroups of finite index
zbMATH Keywords: regulating subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: regulating index
zbMATH Keywords: types
zbMATH Keywords: critical typesets
zbMATH Keywords: tight subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: Burkhardt invariants
reviewed by: Charles Vinsonhaler
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: jabr.1999.8230
OpenAlex ID: W1994919259
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DOI: 10.1006/JABR.1999.8230
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1423624