Abstract
With the aid of the notion of the rank of an element in an arbitrary group, we prove a criterion for an infinite group to be nonsimple and find conditions under which a q-biprimitively finite group G with Chernikov Sylow q-subgroups has a Chernikov quotient group G/Op′(G).
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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 836–839, June, 1992.
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Gomer, V.O. Groups with finite rank elements. Ukr Math J 44, 753–755 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01056959
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01056959