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Power and commutator structure of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

David Shield
David Shield*
Affiliation:
Goroka Teachers College, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
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Abstract

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The purpose of this paper is to prove a result about the power and commutator structure of groups which generalises some results of Philip Hall. The results presented here are the key to determining the class of a nilpotent wreath product.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , August 1977 , pp. 1 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1977

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