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On locally finite Cpp-groups

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A group G is called a Cpp-group for a prime number p, if G has elements of order p and the centralizer of every non-trivial p-element of G is a pgroup. In this paper we prove that the only infinite locally finite simple groups that are Cpp-groups are isomorphic either to PSL(2,K) or, if p = 2, to Sz(K), with K a suitable algebraic field over GF(p). Using this fact, we also give some structure theorems for infinite locally finite Cpp-groups.

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Costantini, M., Jabara, E. On locally finite Cpp-groups. Isr. J. Math. 212, 123–137 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-015-1276-3

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