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Finite potent groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

John Poland
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaK1S 5B6.
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Abstract

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A group is potent if for any element of the group and any prescribed positive integer (dividing its order if this order is finite) there corresponds a finite homomorphic image of the group in which the element has the prescribed integer as its order. The finite potent groups form a finite variety that contains all finite nilpotent groups, all finite metabelian groups, and precisely one simple group, A5.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

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