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On groups of finite height

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Stephen J. Pride
Stephen J. Pride
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics Open UniversityMilton Keynes MK7 6AA, England
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Abstract

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In a previous paper, ‘The concept of “largeness” in group theory’, a partial order was defined on the class of infinite groups, and this partial order was seen to give some precision to our intuitive notions of what it means for one infinite group to be ‘larger’ than another. The aim of this paper is to look more closely at groups which are ‘low down’ in this partial order, and to examine the interplay between properties of groups and finiteness conditions in group theory.

Subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc. (MOS) 1970): primary 20 E 15, 20 F 15, 20 K 10, 20 K 25; secondary 20 E 10.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , August 1979 , pp. 87 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1979

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