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This article is about the kind of infinite group known as a Tarski monster group. For the largest of the sporadic finite simple groups, see
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is necessarily finitely generated. In fact it is generated by every two non-commuting elements.
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if every nontrivial subgroup (i.e. every subgroup other than 1 and G itself) has
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in 1979 that Tarski groups exist, and that there is a Tarski
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The construction of Olshanskii shows in fact that there are
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non-isomorphic Tarski Monster groups for each prime
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Tarski monster
Monster group
group theory
Alfred Tarski
group
cyclic group
prime number
simple
Alexander Yu. Olshanskii
p-group
counterexamples
group theory
Burnside's problem
von Neumann conjecture
continuum-many
amenable groups
free subgroups
A. Yu. Olshanskii
A. Yu. Olshanskii
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