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- Maximal Class
- Nilpotency Class
- Isomorphism Type
- Elementary Abelian Group
- Lower Central Series
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This lecture is dedicated to Bernhard Neumann. I have learned many things from him; for example, the importance of well-chosen examples.
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Newman, M.F. (1990). Groups of prime-power order. In: Kovács, L.G. (eds) Groups—Canberra 1989. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100730
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