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IJMMS 2003:71, 4511–4516 PII. S016117120321067X © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE AUTOMORPHISMS HAVING THE LIFTING PROPERTY IN THE CATEGORY OF ABELIAN p-GROUPS S. ABDELALIM and H. ESSANNOUNI Received 23 October 2002 Let p be a prime. It is shown that an automorphism α of an abelian p-group A lifts to any abelian p-group of which A is a homomorphic image if and only if α = π idA , with π an invertible p-adic integer. It is also shown that if A is a torsion group or torsion-free p-divisible group, then idA and −idA are the only automorphisms of A which possess the lifting property in the category of abelian groups. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20K30. 1. Introduction. Every inner automorphism of a group G has the property that it extends to an automorphism of any group containing G as subgroup. Schupp [4] showed that this extension property characterizes inner automor- phisms in the category of groups. Pettet [3] gave an easier proof of Schupp’s result and proved at the same time that the inner automorphisms of a group G are also characterized by the lifting property in the category of groups. In [1], we characterized the automorphisms of abelian p-groups having the ex- tension property in the category of abelian p-groups, as well as those having the extension property in the category of all abelian groups. Let be a full subcategory of the category of abelian groups. An automor- phism α of A ∈ has the lifting property in if, for all B ∈ and any epimor- phism s : B → A, there exists α ∈ Aut (B) such that s ◦ α = α ◦s , in other words, the diagram s B A