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We give a full description of locally finite 2-groups G such that the normalized group of units of the group algebra FG over a field F of characteristic 2 has exponent 4.
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Bovdi, V., Salim, M. Group algebras whose groups of normalized units have exponent 4. Czech Math J 68, 141–148 (2018). https://doi.org/10.21136/CMJ.2018.0386-16
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