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Periodic group

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The term periodic group is also used for group with periodic cohomology
This article defines a group property: a property that can be evaluated to true/false for any given group
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RANDOM GROUP PROPERTY: Slender group: A group where every subgroup is finitely generated.
This is a variation of finiteness (groups)
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Definition

A group is termed a periodic group or torsion group if every element of the group has finite order.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

Weaker properties

Metaproperties

Subgroups

This group property is subgroup-closed, viz., any subgroup of a group satisfying the property also satisfies the property
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Any subgroup of a periodic group is periodic. That's because the property of being periodic depends on a property that every individual element must satisfy, and this property doesn't depend on how big the ambient group is.

Quotients

This group property is quotient-closed, viz., any quotient of a group satisfying the property also has the property
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Any quotient of a periodic group is periodic. That's because, under a homomorphism, elements of finite order go to elements of finite order.

Direct products

This group property is finite direct product-closed, viz the direct product of a finite collection of groups each having the property, also has the property

A direct product of finitely many periodic groups is periodic. That's because, under a direct product, the order of an element is the least common multiple of the orders of each of its projections.

More generally, an arbitrary restricted direct product of periodic groups is periodic.

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