Quasi-minimal abelian groups

Goldsmith, B.; Óhógáin, S.; Wallutis, S.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07065-0

Quasi-minimal abelian groups
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by B. Goldsmith, S. Óhógáin and S. Wallutis

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 2185-2195

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07065-0

Published electronically: March 24, 2004

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Abstract:

An abelian group $G$ is said to be quasi-minimal (purely quasi-minimal, directly quasi-minimal) if it is isomorphic to all its subgroups (pure subgroups, direct summands, respectively) of the same cardinality as $G$. Obviously quasi-minimality implies pure quasi-minimality which in turn implies direct quasi-minimality, but we show that neither converse implication holds. We obtain a complete characterisation of quasi-minimal groups. In the purely quasi-minimal case, assuming GCH, a complete characterisation is also established. An independence result is proved for directly quasi-minimal groups.

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