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A question about freeness of a certain class of abelian groups

Lets call an abelian group $G$, to be semi-free (or SF) if every nonzero subgroup of $G$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}\times H$ for some abelian group $H$. Is every semi-free group, a free group? If ...
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A general theory of pairings

Bilinear forms and bilinear maps for vector spaces over a field are standard material for an introductory course in linear algebra. There are also text books for bilinear forms and related quadratic ...
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$A^2$ is isomorphic to $A^{(\omega)}$, but not $A$

Is there an abelian group $A$ with $A\not\cong A\oplus A\cong A\oplus A\oplus A\oplus\cdots$ (a direct sum of countably many copies of $A$)? Edited to add: As no answers are forthcoming, does anyone ...
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On the existence of a direct summand containing a fixed subgroup

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group, and $g_1, \ldots, g_n \in G$ such that the cyclic groups that they generate are in direct sum $\langle g_1 \rangle \oplus \cdots \oplus \langle g_n \rangle$. Is it ...
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Trivial group cohomology induces trivial cohomology of subgroups

From the answer to another question I asked (Projective representations of a finite abelian group) and from the structure theorem of finite abelian groups it follows that if $A$ is a finite abelian ...
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Finding a particular kind of basis of subgroup of a lattice generated by non-negative part

For $\mathbf v=(v_1,\ldots,v_n)\in \mathbb Z^n$, let $\operatorname{supp}(\mathbf v):=\{j: v_j \ne 0\}$. For a subset $X$ of $\mathbb Z^n$, define $\operatorname{supp}(X):=\bigcup_{\mathbf v \in X} \...
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Finite-exponent abelian groups

Let $G$ be an abelian group and $G=\bigoplus_{i=1}^t{{\Bbb{Z}}_{p_i}^{n_i}}^{(\Lambda_i)}$ where each $\Lambda_i$ is a set (at least one of $\Lambda_i$ is infinite). Since $G_{\Bbb{Z}}$ is a finite-...
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Subgroups of the tensor product $A\otimes A$

I have this problem about subgroups of the tensor product of an abelian group $A$ with itself which arises from a complete different setting. I fell into this question studying quandles and quandle ...
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Classification of subgroups of finitely generated abelian groups

A finitely generated abelian group $A$ is isomorphic to a direct sum of cyclic groups. I am interested in an extension of this result on couples of abelian groups $(A,B),$ where $B$ is a subgroup of $...
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Divisible torsion $\mathbb{Z}$-modules

I am trying to prove that for any divisible torsion $\mathbb{Z}$-module $V$, this map $$f:\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}\otimes_E\text{Hom}(\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z},V)\longrightarrow V\mbox{ defined by } f((q+\...
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Two abelian groups, each being direct factor of the other

Let $M$ and $N$ be two abelian groups. Suppose that $M$ is a direct factor of $N$ (i.e. there are homomorphisms $i:M\rightarrow N$ and $p:N\rightarrow M$ such that $p\circ i=id_M$) and $N$ is also a ...
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What is an example of an integral domain with a module that is 1-separable but not separable?

Let R be an integral domain. All modules under discussion are torsion free unital left R-modules.     An R-module is completely decomposable if it is the direct sum of rank 1 submodules.     An R-...
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On describing a sort of "well-behaved" subgroups of a free abelian group

I found this question when I tried to figure out what kind of subgroups of a free abelian group behave just as well as in the finitely generated case. Let $M$ be a free abelian group and $N$ a ...
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On finite Uniform (Goldie) dimensions

1) Is there any characterization of $\Bbb{Z}$-modules with finite uniform dimensions? 2) Find two $\Bbb{Z}$-modules $N, M$ such that $N\leq M$ and $M\hookrightarrow N$ but $N$ is not isomorphic to $M$...
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Quantifier elimination of pp-subgroups of modules

This is a model-theoretic questions. Let $M$ be a $R$-module. Our language will be the standard language of modules, i.e. the language of abelian groups together with an unary function symbol for ...
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Ring of endomorphisms as a criterion of a dimension 1 module

Let $R$ be a unital ring and $M$ be an $R$-module. I have some questions about relation between the ring $\operatorname{End}_R M$ of endomorphisms and the notion of “dimension” of a module. I’m not ...
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Classification of symtrivial modules over a PID

Let us call a module $M$ over a commutative ring $R$ symtrivial if the symmetry $M \otimes M \to M \otimes M, a \otimes b \mapsto b \otimes a$ equals the identity (the same notion applies to arbitrary ...
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Linear algebra of finite abelian groups

If $f: V \to W$ is a surjective homomorphism of vector spaces, and we have fixed a basis for $V$, it is always possible to find a basis for $W$ such that the matrix associated to $\phi$ in the two ...