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A Characterization of the Commutator Subgroup of a Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. Thierrin*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaN6A 3K7
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Abstract

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An element a of a semigroup S is n-potent if there exist a1, a2,..., akS such that a = a1a2...ak and If S is a group, the set of n-potent elements is a normal subgroup of S and the set of 1-potent elements is the commutator subgroup of S.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1976

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