Nonperiodic product of subsets and Hajós' theorem


Abstract


G. Hajós proved that if a unite abelian group is a direct product of its cyclic subsets, then at least one of the factors must be a subgroup.We give a new elementary proof of this theorem based on the special case for p-groups.

DOI Code: 10.1285/i15900932v23n1p1

Keywords: Factorization of finite abelian groups; Hajos-Redei theory

Classification: 20K01; 52C22

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