Finite simple groups with no elements of order six

Lynn Gordon

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society · 1977 · 13 citations · 15 references

DOIFull text

Open access

Concepts

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to completely classify the finite simple groups with no elements of order 6. The proof is by induction and involves an analysis of the structure of the 2-local subgroups of a counterexample of minimum order. A recent result of Glauberman plays an essential role.

References

15