A characterization of Warfield groups

Moore, Judy H.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1983-0687628-9

A characterization of Warfield groups
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 87 (1983), 617-620 Request permission

Abstract:

Local Warfield groups are generalizations of totally projective $p$-groups. This paper presents a characterization of local Warfield groups which is the analogue of the description of totally projective $p$-groups as groups with a nice composition series.

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