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Existentially Closed Groups in Specific Classes

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Finite and Locally Finite Groups

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This survey article is intended to make the reader familiar with the algebraic structure of existentially closed groups in specific group classes, and with the ideas and methods involved in this area of group theory. We shall try to give a fairly complete account of the theory, but there will be a certain emphasis on classes of nilpotent groups, locally finite groups, and extensions.

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Leinen, F. (1995). Existentially Closed Groups in Specific Classes. In: Hartley, B., Seitz, G.M., Borovik, A.V., Bryant, R.M. (eds) Finite and Locally Finite Groups. NATO ASI Series, vol 471. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0329-9_11

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