| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M12551/01 |
| Title: |
BURNSIDE GROUPS OF SMALL EXPONENT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Holt, Professor D |
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Mathematics |
| Organisation: |
University of Warwick |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
02 September 1998 |
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31 October 1999 |
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2,880
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The most important and challenging current problem in the area of Burnside groups is to decide the finiteness or infiniteness of B(2,5). We do not realistically expect to achieve this aim, but we hope to gain more experience and feeling for this group by proving infiniteness of some of its preimages. We shall also be exploring finiteness proofs related to groups of exponent four and six; it would also be interesting, for example, to find some kind of computational proof of the finiteness of B(2,6) that does not rely on the fact that 6=3 times 2, since this might provide more of an insight into the B(2,5) situation. Newman expects to make short visits to Mike Vaughan-Lee in Oxford and Sarah Rees in Newcastle during his visit, to collaborate on the same basic problems.
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