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On the laws of certain varieties of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Robert B. Howlett  and
Richard Levingston
Robert B. Howlett
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia;
Richard Levingston
Affiliation:
22 Swinden Street, Downer, ACT 2602, Australia.
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Abstract

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Let m and n be coprime positive integers. The variety (consisting of all groups G such that for some normal subgroup H of G, H is abelian of exponent dividing m and G/H is abelian of exponent dividing n) and the variety both satisfy the following three laws:

all elements have order dividing mn;

the commutator of two mth powers has order dividing m;

the commutator of two nth powers has order dividing n.

It is proved that any law which holds in both these varieties (notably that commutators commute) is a consequence of the above three laws.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 145 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1985

References

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