Tarski group
A Tarski group is an infinite group such that every non-trivial proper subgroup of is of prime order.
Tarski groups are also called Tarski monsters,especially in the case whenall the proper non-trivial subgroups are of the same order(that is, when the Tarski group isa -group (http://planetmath.org/PGroup4) for some prime ).
Alexander Ol’shanskii[1, 2] showed that Tarski groups exist,and that there is a Tarski -group for every prime .
From the definition one can easily deducea number of properties of Tarski groups.For example,every Tarski group is a simple group,it satisfies the minimal condition and the maximal condition,it can be generated by just two elements,it is periodic but not locally finite
,and its subgroup lattice (http://planetmath.org/LatticeOfSubgroups) is modular (http://planetmath.org/ModularLattice).
References
- 1 A. Yu. Olshanskii,An infinite group with subgroups of prime orders,Math. USSR Izv. 16 (1981), 279–289;translation
of Izvestia Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Matem. 44 (1980), 309–321.
- 2 A. Yu. Olshanskii,Groups of bounded period with subgroups of prime order,Algebra and Logic 21 (1983), 369–418;translation of Algebra i Logika 21 (1982), 553–618.