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A NOTE ON NIELSEN EQUIVALENCE IN FINITELY GENERATED ABELIAN GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2011

DANIEL OANCEA*
Affiliation:
1549 Victoria St. E, Whitby, Ontario, Canada L1N 9E3 (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

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Nielsen transformations determine the automorphisms of a free group of rank n, and also of a free abelian group of rank n, and furthermore the generating n-tuples of such groups form a single Nielsen equivalence class. For an arbitrary rank n group, the generating n-tuples may fall into several Nielsen classes. Diaconis and Graham [‘The graph of generating sets of an abelian group’, Colloq. Math.80 (1999), 31–38] determined the Nielsen classes for finite abelian groups. We extend their result to the case of infinite abelian groups.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2011

References

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