English

Borel Whitehead groups

Logic 2016-09-07 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We investigate the Whiteheadness of Borel abelian groups (aleph_1-free, wlog, as otherwise this is trivial). We show that CH (and even WCH) implies any such abelian group is free, and always aleph_2-free.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/9809198,
  title  = {Borel Whitehead groups},
  author = {Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9809198},
  year   = {2016}
}