International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 3 (1980), Issue 4, Pages 719-730
doi:10.1155/S016117128000052X
Extensions of group retractions
Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston 77004, Texas, USA
Received 18 June 1979; Revised 29 February 1980
Copyright © 1980 Richard D. Byrd et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In this paper a condition, which is necessary and sufficient, is determined when a retraction of a subgroup H of a torsion-free group G can be extended to a retraction of G. It is also shown that each retraction of a torsion-free abelian group can be uniquely extended to a retraction of its divisible closure.