Representations of Posets and Indecomposable Torsion-Free Abelian Groups

Abstract

Representations of posets in certain modules are used to find indecomposable almost completely decomposable torsion-free abelian groups. For a special class of almost completely decomposable groups we determine the possible ranks of indecomposable groups and show that the possible ranks are realized by indecomposable groups in the class.