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The join of several subnormal subgroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. P. Williams
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge

Extract

In (2) Lennox and Stonehewer proved:Let G be a group with subnormal subgroups H and K, and let J = 〈H, K〉. Suppose that J/J′ has finite rank. Then

(i) given positive integers a and b, there exists c such that γc(J) ≤ γa(H). γb(K) and

(ii) J is subnormal in G.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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