| Title: | Almost Butler groups (English) | 
| Author: | Bican, Ladislav | 
| Language: | English | 
| Journal: | Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal | 
| ISSN: | 0011-4642 (print) | 
| ISSN: | 1572-9141 (online) | 
| Volume: | 50 | 
| Issue: | 2 | 
| Year: | 2000 | 
| Pages: | 367-378 | 
| Summary lang: | English | 
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| Category: | math | 
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| Summary: | Generalizing the notion of the almost free group we introduce almost Butler groups. An almost $B_2$-group $G$ of singular cardinality is a $B_2$-group. Since almost $B_2$-groups have preseparative chains, the same result in regular cardinality holds under the additional hypothesis that $G$ is a $B_1$-group. Some other results characterizing $B_2$-groups within the classes of almost $B_1$-groups and almost $B_2$-groups are obtained. A theorem of stating that a group $G$ of weakly compact cardinality $\lambda $ having a $\lambda $-filtration consisting of pure $B_2$-subgroup is a $B_2$-group appears as a corollary. (English) | 
| MSC: | 20K20 | 
| MSC: | 20K27 | 
| idZBL: | Zbl 1051.20023 | 
| idMR: | MR1761394 | 
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| Date available: | 2009-09-24T10:33:36Z | 
| Last updated: | 2020-07-03 | 
| Stable URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/127576 | 
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