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Note on the abstract group (2,3,7;9)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Leech
John Leech
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University of Glasgow
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The abstract group

is finite for n = 4,6,7,8, and the relations are incompatible for n = 1,2,3,5. A criterion of Coxeter ((1)) suggests that (2,3,7; n) should be infinite for all n ≥ 9, but its applicability to these groups is unproved, and it is not known whether there are any further examples of finite groups (2,3,7; n). However, (2,3,7; 9) has been proved infinite by Sims ((3)), and it follows at once that (2,3,7; n) is infinite whenever n is a multiple of 9 as it then has an infinite factor group.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 1966 , pp. 7 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1966

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