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Boolean powers of simple groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

B. H. Neumann
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra
Sadayuki Yamamuro
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra
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We prove that factor groups of cartesian powers of finite non-abelian simple groups cannot be countably infinite. Thisis not our main result, but it had been our original aim. The proof is based on a similar fact concerning σ-complete Boolean algebras, and on a representation of certain subcartesian powers of a group in its group ring over a Boolean ring. This representation, to which we give the name “Boolean power”, will be our central theme, and we begin with it.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1965

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