Locally free group

A group in which every finitely-generated subgroup is free (see Finitely-generated group; Free group). Thus, a countable locally free group is the union of an ascending sequence of free subgroups.

One says that a locally free group has finite rank if any finite subset of it is contained in a free subgroup of rank , being the smallest number with this property. The class of locally free groups is closed with respect to taking free products, and the rank of a free product of locally free groups of finite ranks equals the sum of the ranks of the factors.

References

[1]	A.G. Kurosh, "The theory of groups" , 1–2 , Chelsea (1955–1956) (Translated from Russian)