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Groups of automorphisms of linearly ordered sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

J.L. Hickman
J.L. Hickman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Abstract

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I show that a group of order-automorphisms of a linearly ordered set can be expressed as an unrestricted direct product in which each factor is either the infinite cyclic group or else a group of order-automorphisms of a densely ordered set. From this a couple of simple group embedding theorems can be derived. The technique used to obtain the main result of this paper was motivated by the Erdös-Hajnal inductive classification of scattered sets.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , August 1976 , pp. 13 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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