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The p-local ranks of finite simple groups with abelian Sylow p-subgroups

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As a continuation of previous work, in this paper, we mainly study the finite simple groups which have abelian Sylow subgroups in term of p-local rank, especially a group theoretic characterization will be given.

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Wang, B., Zhang, Z. The p-local ranks of finite simple groups with abelian Sylow p-subgroups. Sci. China Math. 54, 341–350 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-010-4146-9

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