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Certain locally nilpotent varieties of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Alireza Abdollahi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran, e-mail: a.abdollahi@sci.ui.ac.ir
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Abstract

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Let c ≥ 0, d ≥ 2 be integers and be the variety of groups in which every d-generator subgroup is nilpotent of class at most c. N.D. Gupta asked for what values of c and d is it true that is locally nilpotent? We prove that if c ≤ 2d + 2d−1 − 3 then the variety is locally nilpotent and we reduce the question of Gupta about the periodic groups in to the prime power exponent groups in this variety.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2003

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