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12.45 (1992)

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(P. Hall). Must a non-trivial group, which is isomorphic to each of its non-trivial normal subgroups, be either free of infinite rank, simple, or infinite cyclic? (Lennox, Smith and Wiegold, 1992, have shown that a finitely generated group of this kind which has a proper normal subgroup of finite index is infinite cyclic.)

Contributor: J. C. Lennox

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No (V. N. Obraztsov, Proc. London Math. Soc., 75 (1997), 79–98).

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