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Two questions on semigroup laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

O. Macedońska
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Silesian Technical University, ul. Kaszubska 23, 44–100 Gliwice, Poland, e-mail: olga@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl
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Abstract

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B.H. Neumann recently proved some implications for semigroup laws in groups. This may help in the solution of a problem posed by G.M. Bergman in 1981.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2002

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