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On Solutions of xd = 1 In Symmetric Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leo Moser*
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Canadian Mathematical Congress and University of Alberta
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1. Introduction. Several recent papers have dealt with the number of solutions of xd = 1 in Sn, the symmetric group of degree n. Let us denote this number by An,d and let An,2 = Tn.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1955

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