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On thickness and decomposability of abelianp-groups

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We construct essentially finitely indecomposable abelianp-groups that are not thick, i.e., admit a non-small homomorphism into a Σ-cyclicp-group.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Baylor University, 76798-7328, Waco, TX, USA

    Manfred Dugas

  2. Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 48202, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

    John Irwin

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Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-8900350.

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Dugas, M., Irwin, J. On thickness and decomposability of abelianp-groups. Israel J. Math. 79, 153–159 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02808212

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