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Boolean powers of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. B. Apps
A. B. Apps
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Christ's College, Cambridge
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If M is any algebraic structure, and R is any Boolean ring, then a structure called the (bounded) Boolean power of M by R, denoted MR, can be defined. This construction, which is also called a bounded Boolean extension, is a sort of generalized direct power, and was introduced by Foster in the 1950's (as a refinement of his previous notion of a Boolean extension). In this paper we shall study isomorphism types and automorphisms of Boolean powers of groups, and obtain information about their characteristic subgroups: we shall be chiefly concerned with Boolean powers of finite groups.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 91 , Issue 3 , May 1982 , pp. 375 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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