A note on a theorem of Megibben

Peter Danchev and Patrick Keef

Address:
Department of Mathematics, 127 SOU “I. N. Denkoglu” 43 Parchevich Street, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Department of Mathematics, Whitman College 63 Wolf Fock Place, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA

E-mail:
pvdanchev@yahoo.com
keef@whitman.edu

Abstract: We prove that pure subgroups of thick Abelian $p$-groups which are modulo countable are again thick. This generalizes a result due to Megibben (Michigan Math. J. 1966). Some related results are also established.

AMSclassification: primary 20K10.

Keywords: thick groups, pure subgroups, countable extensions, divisible groups, bounded groups.