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Not All Groups Are LEF Groups, or Can You Know If a Group Is Infinite?

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Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory III (CANT 2018)

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This is an introduction to the class of groups that are locally embeddable into finite groups.

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Supported in part by a grant from the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.

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    Melvyn B. Nathanson

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Nathanson, M.B. (2020). Not All Groups Are LEF Groups, or Can You Know If a Group Is Infinite?. In: Nathanson, M. (eds) Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory III. CANT 2018. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 297. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31106-3_13

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