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In this chapter we shall study ways in which a group may be decomposed into a set of groups each of which is in some sense of simpler type. This idea, the resolution of a single complex structure into a number of less complicated structures, is encountered in almost all branches of algebra.
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Robinson, D.J.S. (1996). Decompositions of a Group. In: A Course in the Theory of Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 80. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8594-1_3
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