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Groups of finite exponent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

N.D. Gupta
Affiliation:
Department of mathematics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;
M.F. Newman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Abstract

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The negative answer by Novikov and Adyan to the Burnside question (is every finitely generated group of finite exponent finite?) still leaves open some cases, in particular, all 2-power exponents. Some reduction results are known. In this note we present another kind of reduction result.

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Research Article
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