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Finite groups with a certain centralizer of an element of order 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

A. R. Prince
A. R. Prince
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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Synopsis

A characterization of the symmetric group of degree 9 is given in terms of the centralizer of an element of order 3.

Type
Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 87 , Issue 3-4 , 1981 , pp. 249 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1981

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