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Varieties of groups and normal-subgroup lattices—a survey

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In this paper we bring together a number of results on a problem of Jónsson about characterising a variety of groups by means of the normal-subgroup lattices of its member groups.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, York University, Downsview, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    R. G. Burns & S. Oates-Williams

  2. Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, 4072, Queensland, Australia

    R. G. Burns & S. Oates-Williams

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Burns, R.G., Oates-Williams, S. Varieties of groups and normal-subgroup lattices—a survey. Algebra Universalis 32, 145–152 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01190820

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