Free powered group for a set of primes

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Definition

Suppose is a set of primes and is a generating set. The free -powered group on , denoted with identified as a subset of this group, is the unique (up to isomorphism and with embedding of ) group satisfying the following:

  1. This group is -powered.
  2. It has no proper subgroup that contains and is also -powered.
  3. Any set map from to a group extends to a unique group homomorphism from to .

Guarantee of existence

Further information: There exist free powered groups for any set of primes and any size of generating set