It is proved that a periodic group whose element orders do not exceed 6 either is a locally finite or is group of exponent 5.
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(D. V. Lytkina) Supported by RFBR, grant Nos. 13-01-00505 and 14-01-90013.
(V. D. Mazurov, A. S. Mamontov and E. Jabara) The work is supported by Russian Science Foundation (project 14-21-00065).
Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 570–586, September-October, 2014.
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Lytkina, D.V., Mazurov, V.D., Mamontov, A.S. et al. Groups Whose Element Orders do not Exceed 6. Algebra Logic 53, 365–376 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10469-014-9297-2
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