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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 487–497, October, 1978.
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Il'inykh, A.P. Characterization of the simple O'Nan-Sims group in terms of the centralizer of a third-order element. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 24, 762–767 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01099163
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