divisible group
An abelian group is said to be divisible if for any , , there exists an element such that .
Some noteworthy facts:
- •
An abelian group is injective
(http://planetmath.org/InjectiveModule) (as a -module) if and only if it is divisible.
- •
Every group is isomorphic
to a subgroup
of a divisible group.
- •
Any divisible abelian group is isomorphic to the direct sum
of its torsion subgroup and copies of the group of rationals (for some cardinal number
).