Endomorphism Rings of Reid Groups

Abstract

Irreducible strongly indecomposable torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank are called Reid groups, and a full subring R of a division algebra D is called Reid-realizable if it is isomorphic to the endomorphism ring of a Reid group. The main results is that a full subring R of a finite dimensional division algebra D is Reid-realizable if for infinitely many prime numbers p the quotient of the p-adic localizations D p * / div R p * > either is the product of at least two p-adic number fields, or is not a product of division algebras. In particular, a full subring of a finite dimensional central division algebra over an algebraic number field is Reid-realizable if it is locally free for infinitely many prime numbers.