On the Burnside problem on periodic groups

On the Burnside problem on periodic groups
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 257-260 Request permission

It is proved that the free m-generated Burnside groups $\mathbb {B}(m,n)$ of exponent n are infinite provided that $m > 1$, $n \geq {2^{48}}$.

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