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单词 BaerSpeckerGroup
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Baer-Specker group


Let A be a non-empty set, and G an abelian groupMathworldPlanetmath. The set Kof all functions from A to G is an abelian group, with additionPlanetmathPlanetmathdefined elementwise by (f+g)(x)=f(x)+g(x). The zero elementMathworldPlanetmath isthe function that sends all elements of A into 0 of G, and thenegative of an element f is a function defined by(-f)(x)=-(f(x)).

When A=, the set of natural numbers, and G=,K as defined above is called the Baer-Specker group. Anyelement of K, being a function from to ,can be expressed as an infiniteMathworldPlanetmath sequencePlanetmathPlanetmath (x1,x2,,xn,), and the elementwise addition on K canbe realized as componentwise addition on the sequences:

(x1,x2,,xn,)+(y1,y2,,yn,)=(x1+y1,x2+y2,,xn+yn,).

An alternativecharacterizationMathworldPlanetmath of the Baer-Specker group K is that it can beviewed as the countably infiniteMathworldPlanetmath direct productMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath of copies of:

K=0=0.

The Baer-Specker group is an important example of a torsion-freeabelian group whose rank is infinite. It is not a free abeliangroupMathworldPlanetmath, but any of its countableMathworldPlanetmath subgroupMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath is free (abelian).

References

  • 1 P. A. Griffith, Infinite Abelian Group Theory, The University of Chicago Press (1970)
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