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It is known that there exists a countable locally finite group that contains a copy of every other countable locally finite group. For which other classes of countable groups does a similar “largest” group exist? In particular, what about periodic locally soluble groups? periodic locally nilpotent groups?

Contributor: B. Hartley

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