Algebra and Topology Seminar

4pm Tuesday 17 August 2004
Mike Newman
MSI

The challenge of deciding in/finiteness of groups

An early challenge of this kind was the Burnside questions. There are still some unsettled parts of these questions. I will give a survey and then focus on the question of whether finitely generated groups all of whose elements have order dividing 5 are finite.




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