Asymmetric decompositions of abelian groups

A subsetA of an Abelian groupG is said to be asymmetric ifg+S⊄A for any elementg∈G and any infinite symmetric subsetS⊂G (S=−S). The minimal cardinality of a decomposition of the groupG into asymmetric sets is denoted by ν(G). for any Abelian groupG, the cardinal number ν(G is expressed via the following cardinal invariants: the free rank, the 2-rank, and the cardinality of the group. In particular, . Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 10–19, July, 1999.