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Abstract
The notions of transitivity and full transitivity for abelian p-groups were introduced by Kaplansky in the 1950s. Important classes of transitive and fully transitive p-groups were discovered by Hill, among others. Since a 1976 paper by Corner, it has been known that the two properties are independent of one another. We examine how the formation of direct sums of p-groups affects transitivity and full transitivity. In so doing, we uncover a far-reaching class of p-groups for which transitivity and full transitivity are equivalent. This result sheds light on the relationship between the two properties for all p-groups.
Recommended Citation
Steve Files and Brendan Goldsmith:Transitive and fully transitive groups. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 126, no.6, June, 1998, pp.1605-1610.
Publication Details
In the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 126, no.6, June, 1998, pp.1605-1610. Available from http://www.ams.org/proc/1998-126-06/S0002-9939-98-04330-5/S0002-9939-98-04330-5.pdf