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On groups whose element orders divide 6 and 7

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We prove that a group whose element orders divide 6 and 7 either is locally finite or an extension of a nontrivial elementary abelian 2-group by a group without involutions.

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Correspondence to W. Guo.

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The first author was supported by the NNSF of China (11371335) and the Wu Wen-Tsuu Key Laboratory of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Science.

Hefei; Novosibirsk. Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 88–94, January–February, 2017; DOI: 10.17377/smzh.2017.58.109.

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Guo, W., Mamontov, A.S. On groups whose element orders divide 6 and 7. Sib Math J 58, 67–71 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0037446617010098

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