On Torsion-Free Minimal Abelian Groups

ABSTRACT

An abelian group is said to be minimal if it is isomorphic to all its subgroups of finite index. In this article we show that torsion-free groups which are complete in their ?-adic topology or are of p-rank not greater than 1, for all primes p, are minimal. A criterion is found for the minimality of all finite rank and for large classes of infinite rank completely decomposable groups. Separable minimal groups are also considered.