On groups of exponent four. III

Gupta, N. D.; Quintana, R. B.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0292919-2

On groups of exponent four. III
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1972), 15-19 Request permission

Abstract:

C. R. B. Wright has shown that the nilpotency class of an n-generator group of exponent four is at most $3n - 1$. In this paper, it is shown that if this bound can be improved to $3n - 3$ then the free group of exponent four of infinite rank is solvable.

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