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On the Burnside problem on periodic groups

Author(s): Sergei V. Ivanov
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 257-260.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F50; Secondary 20E05, 20F05
MathSciNet review: 1149874
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Abstract: It is proved that the free m-generated Burnside groups $\mathbb{B}(m,n)$ of exponent n are infinite provided that , $n \geq {2^{48}}$ .

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