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Direct products and the Hopf property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

J. M. Tyrer Jones
J. M. Tyrer Jones
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New HallCambridge, England
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In [1] Neumann and Dey prove that the free product of two finitely generated Hopf groups is Hopf and ask whether a similar result holds for direct products. It is the purpose of this paper to show that this is not the case. We prove

THEOREM A. There exists a finitely generated group G satisfying the following conditions:

(i) G is isomorphic to a proper direct factor of itself;

(ii) G is the direct product of two Hopf groups.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , March 1974 , pp. 174 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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