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Abelian groups whose subgroup lattice is the union of two intervals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Simion Breaz
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, and InformaticsBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: [email protected]
Grigore Călugăreanu
Affiliation:
Dept. Mathematics and Computer Sci, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, State of Kuwait e-mail: calu@mcs. sci. kuniv.edu.kw
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Abstract

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In this note we characterize the abelian groups G which have two different proper subgroups N and M such that the subgroup lattice L(G)=[0, M]∪ [N, G] is the union of these intervals.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2005

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