Chernikov group
A Chernikov group is a group that has a normal subgroup such that is finiteand is a direct product
of finitely many quasicyclic groups.
The significance of this somewhat arbitrary-looking definition is that all such groups satisfy the minimal condition, and for a long time they were the only known groups with this property.
Chernikov groups are named after http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/ history/Biographies/Chernikov.htmlSergei Chernikov,who proved that every solvable group that satisfies the minimal conditionis a Chernikov group.We can state this result in the form of the following theorem.
Theorem.
The following are equivalent for a group :
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is a Chernikov group.
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is virtually abelian and satisfies the minimal condition.
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is virtually solvable and satisfies the minimal condition.