Groups satisfying semigroup laws, and nilpotent-by-burnside varieties

Journal of Algebra

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 510-525

  Burns, Robert G ^a   Macedońska, Olga ^b   Medvedev, Yuri ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0031572137     PISSN: 00218693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jabr.1997.7088     Document Type: Article

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