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Almost-Free E-Rings of Cardinality ℵ1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rüdiger Göbel ,
Saharon Shelah  and
Lutz Strüngmann
Rüdiger Göbel
Affiliation:
Fachbereich 6—Mathematik, University of Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Saharon Shelah
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel e-mail: [email protected]@math.huji.ac.il
Lutz Strüngmann
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel e-mail: [email protected]@math.huji.ac.il
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Abstract

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An $E$-ring is a unital ring $R$ such that every endomorphism of the underlying abelian group ${{R}^{+}}$ is multiplication by some ring element. The existence of almost-free $E$-rings of cardinality greater than ${{2}^{{{\aleph }_{0}}}}$ is undecidable in ZFC. While they exist in Gödel's universe, they do not exist in other models of set theory. For a regular cardinal ${{\aleph }_{1}}\le \text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }\le {{2}^{{{\aleph }_{0}}}}$ we construct $E$-rings of cardinality $\lambda $ in ZFC which have ${{\aleph }_{1}}$-free additive structure. For $\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }={{\aleph }_{1}}$ we therefore obtain the existence of almost-free $E$-rings of cardinality ${{\aleph }_{1}}$ in ZFC.

Keywords

20K2020K3013B1013B25E-ringsalmost-free modules
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , 01 August 2003 , pp. 750 - 765
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2003

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