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An index of P. Hall for varieties of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

L.F. Harris
L.F. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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P. Hall defined the k–index of a variety , of groups to be the least cardinal number r such that if a group G is generated by a set S and every subset of S of cardinality at most r generates a group in then G ∈ . We show that the only variety which has finite k–index and contains a product of two non-trivial varieties is the variety of all groups. As a consequence of this and P. Hall's result that nilpotent varieties have finite k–index we show that a soluble variety or a variety generated by a finite group has finite k–index if and only if it is nilpotent.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , June 1972 , pp. 399 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1972

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