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Groups with words which give rise to commutative operations are considered. Finitep-groups with this property are shown to be regular. It is also shown that finitep-groups of class less thanp, among other groups, have this property.
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Groves, J.R.J. Regularp-groups and words giving rise to commutative group operations. Israel J. Math. 24, 73–77 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02761430
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02761430