Math 2.0

Concept

Locally cyclic group

Summary

A group is locally cyclic if every finitely generated subgroup is cyclic. Every cyclic group is locally cyclic, and every finitely-generated locally cyclic group is cyclic. Every locally cyclic group is abelian. Every subgroup, every quotient group and every homomorphic image of a locally cyclic group is locally cyclic.

Further reading

  1. Wikipedia, page 249268, revision 1353640923, Glossary of group theory, section L. adopted
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