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Non-Nilpotent Groups in Which Every Product of Four Elements Can be Reordered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. Maj  and
S. E. Stonehewer
M. Maj
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Di Matematica Ed Applicazioni, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Napoli, Italy
S. E. Stonehewer
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
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Let G be a group and n(≧ 2) an integer. We say that G belongs to the class of groups P n if every product of n elements can be reordered, i.e. for all n-tuples , there exists a non-trivial element σ in the symmetric group Σn such that Let P denote the union of the classes P n , n ≧ 2. Clearly every finite group belongs to P and each class P n is closed with respect to forming subgroups and factor groups.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 42 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1990 , pp. 1053 - 1066
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1990

Footnotes

The authors are grateful to British Council and C.N.R. for financial support while this work was being carried out in Italy and Warwick.

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