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2024-06-06

Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas

Independence of Whitehead's Problem for Algebraists

Keywords:

grupo libre, grupo de Whitehead, subgrupo puro, principios de diamante, axioma de Martin (es)
free group, Whitehead group, pure subgroup, diamond principles, Martin's axiom (en)

Authors

  • Diego A. Mejía Shizuoka University
  • Carlos M. Parra-Londoño Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Basados en el trabajo de P. Eklof [4], ofrecemos una prueba completa de la independencia del Problema de Whitehead para grupos abelianos de cardinalidad arbitaria. Dicha demostración fue establecida originalmente por S. Shelah [16, 17] como consecuencia de su famoso Teorema de Compacidad para álgebras universales. Como parte de este trabajo proponemos, basados en [5], una prueba simplificada del Teorema de Compacidad de Shelah para grupos abelianos.

Supported on P. Eklof's work [4], we present a complete proof of the independence of Whitehead's Problem for abelian groups of arbitrary cardinality. Such proof was established by S. Shelah [16, 17] as a consequence of his famous Compactness Theorem for universal algebras. As a part of this paper we propose, based on [5], a simplified proof of Shelah's Compactness Theorem for abelian groups.

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Mejía, D. A. and Parra-Londoño, C. M. (2023). Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas. Boletín de Matemáticas, 30(2), 61–80. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903

ACM

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Mejía, D.A. and Parra-Londoño, C.M. 2023. Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas. Boletín de Matemáticas. 30, 2 (Oct. 2023), 61–80.

ACS

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Mejía, D. A.; Parra-Londoño, C. M. Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas. Bol. Matemáticas 2023, 30, 61-80.

ABNT

MEJÍA, D. A.; PARRA-LONDOÑO, C. M. Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas. Boletín de Matemáticas, [S. l.], v. 30, n. 2, p. 61–80, 2023. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903. Acesso em: 28 apr. 2025.

Chicago

Mejía, Diego A., and Carlos M. Parra-Londoño. 2023. “Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas”. Boletín De Matemáticas 30 (2):61-80. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903.

Harvard

Mejía, D. A. and Parra-Londoño, C. M. (2023) “Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas”, Boletín de Matemáticas, 30(2), pp. 61–80. Available at: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903 (Accessed: 28 April 2025).

IEEE

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D. A. Mejía and C. M. Parra-Londoño, “Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas”, Bol. Matemáticas, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 61–80, Oct. 2023.

MLA

Mejía, D. A., and C. M. Parra-Londoño. “Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas”. Boletín de Matemáticas, vol. 30, no. 2, Oct. 2023, pp. 61-80, https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903.

Turabian

Mejía, Diego A., and Carlos M. Parra-Londoño. “Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas”. Boletín de Matemáticas 30, no. 2 (October 11, 2023): 61–80. Accessed April 28, 2025. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903.

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Mejía DA, Parra-Londoño CM. Independencia del Problema de Whitehead para Algebristas. Bol. Matemáticas [Internet]. 2023 Oct. 11 [cited 2025 Apr. 28];30(2):61-80. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bolma/article/view/114903

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