Note on a theorem of R. Baer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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It is trivial that a group all of whose elements except the identity have order two is Abelian; and F. Levi and B. L. van der Waerden(1) have shown that a group all of whose elements except the identity have order three has class less than or equal to three. On the other hand, R. Baer(3) has shown that if the fact that all the elements of a group have orders dividing n implies a limitation on the class of the group, then n is a prime. The object of the present note is to extend this result by showing that if M is a fixed integer there are at most a finite number of prime powers n other than primes, such that the fact that all the elements of a group have orders dividing n implies a limitation on the class of its Mth derived group.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1949 , pp. 321 - 327
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