Baer's Result: The Infinite Product of the Integers Has No Basis
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is bijective. This sounds easy enough. One should bear in mind, however, that nobody is able to write down explicitly a basis for such innocent Q-vector spaces as the real numbers V = R or the infinite product V = ∏∞ m=1Q. Indeed, to establish the existence of a basis in infinite-dimensional vector spaces one has to use the axiom of choice, or equivalently Zorn’s Lemma, and thereby abandons all explicitness. To emphasize this aspect, especially in analysis, such a basis is sometimes referred to as a Hamel basis. The existence of a basis does not carry over from vector spaces to modules. Indeed, a module M over a ring R is called free if it contains a basis. Throughout, we are interested in modules over the ring of integers Z, that is, abelian groups. Some abelian groups are free, others are not. For example, the abelian group of complex n-th roots of unity
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The American Mathematical Monthly
دوره 115 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008