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An abelian group A is called splitting if its torsion subgroup T is a direct summand of A. The weaker notion of quasi-splitting groups was introduced by Walker [7]: A is called quasi-splitting if there exists an integer n ≠ 0 such that nA is contained in some splitting subgroup of A.
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Joubert, S.V., Ohlhoff, H.J.K., Schoeman, M.J. (1983). Characterizations of Quasi-Splitting Abelian Groups. In: Göbel, R., Lady, L., Mader, A. (eds) Abelian Group Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21560-9_27
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