Infinite locally dihedral groups as automorphism groups

Abstract

If \(A\) is a nontrivial torsion-free, locally cyclic group with no nontrivial divisible quotients, and \(G\) is the split extension of \(A\) by a group of order 2 acting on \(A\) by means of the inverting map, then \(G\simeq {{{\mathrm{Aut}}}G} \). We prove that in no other case the full automorphism group of a group is infinite and locally dihedral.