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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Our aim in this note is to generalize results of Baer in [3; 5]. In § 1 an arbitrary formation n is considered, the key result being Proposition 1.5. This is applied in § 2 to characterize various finiteness conditions, for example the classes of groups with maximum [minimum] condition on subgroups, subnormal subgroups, and normal subgroups respectively, or the class of (not necessarily soluble) polyminimax groups (see Theorems 2.1 and 2.6). These results may also be regarded as generalizations of the well-known theorem of Malcev-Baer that a radical group satisfies the maximum condition [is a polyminimax group] if all its abelian subgroups satisfy the maximum condition [are minimax groups].