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ON LOCALIZATIONS OF TORSION ABELIAN GROUPS ´ ´ ´ ˆ ¨ JOSE L. RODRIGUEZ, JEROME SCHERER, AND LUTZ STRUNGMANN Abstract. As it is well known, torsion abelian groups are not preserved by localiza- tion functors. However, Libman proved that the cardinality of LT is bounded by |T |ℵ0 whenever T is torsion abelian and L is a localization functor. In this paper we study localizations of torsion abelian groups and investigate new examples. In particular we prove that the structure of LT is determined by the structure of the localization of the primary components of T in many cases. Furthermore, the relationship between localizations of abelian p-groups and their basic subgroups is completely characterized. 1. Introduction Localization functors have a long history and were studied extensively in many fields of mathematics. However, during the last decade, new applications of these functors in homotopy theory due to Bousfield, Casacuberta, Dror Farjoun and others (see e.g. [2], [5], [11]), have pushed several authors to investigate the effect of homotopical localization functors on homotopy or homology groups. For instance, the effect on the fundamental group can often be described by means of group theoretical localization functors. Moti- vated by this relationship, important advances have been recently achieved in the study of group localization functors, especially related to their behavior on certain classes of groups, like for example finite or nilpotent groups ([6], [19], [20]), simple groups ([16], [17], [22], [23], [25]) or perfect groups ([1], [24]). The papers by Casacuberta [6] and Libman [19] are good starting points for non-expert readers. Roughly speaking a localization functor in the ca