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Simplicial Complexes and a Partial Classification of Almost Completely Decomposable Torsion Free Abelian Groups text Perez-Segui, Maria Luisa 2014-12-16T06:18:14Z 2014-12-16T06:18:14Z 10000-01-01 1985 1985 The thesis treats the problem of how different two quasi-isomorphic groups can be. We first attack the problem in a topological way. We construct a functor (kappa) from the category of pairs (G,U), where G is a topological group and U is an open symmetric neighborhood of O in G, into the category of simplicial complexes. We give all torsion free groups the discrete topology and denote by Tf the category thus obtained. The image under (kappa) of the Pontryagin dual of an inclusion in Tf is a regular simplicial covering map of connected complexes. The lifting criterion available in the theory of covering spaces is then used to get the following theorem: If L = N (CRPLUS) P, and for every y (ELEM) P (FDIAG) O and x (ELEM) N there is f: P (--->) N such that f(y) = x, then M decomposes. Secondly we treat the problem algebraically in a constructive way. We restrict ourselves to the class of almost completely decomposable groups. We fix L = L(,1) (CRPLUS) . . . (CRPLUS) L(,n) with rank L(,i) = 1 for all i, inside a -vector space V of dimension n. We examine all subgroups M of V containing L such that (VBAR)M/L(VBAR) < (INFIN) and each L(,i )is pure in M. In the case when M/L is cyclic we define a normalized expression of a -basis of V. This expression is then used to classify up to isomorphism all M's as above in the case when M/L is cyclic and L has a totally disconnected type graph. The classification involves congruence relations of the coefficients of the normalized expression, and the primes dividing the L(,i)'s. As a corollary we obtain a complete classification of almost completely decomposable groups of rank 2. Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T06:18:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8600281.pdf: 2704005 bytes, checksum: 195699e288640c4aa583a71605f9a494 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1985 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 71404 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 114 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/71238 (UMI)AAI8600281 Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.