- CN group
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mathematics , in the area ofalgebra known asgroup theory , a more than fifty year effort was made to answer a conjecture of harv|Burnside|1911: are all groups of odd order solvable? Progress was made by showing thatCA group s, groups in which thecentralizer of a non-identity element is abelian, of odd order are solvable harv|Suzuki|1957. Further progress was made showing that CN groups, groups in which the centralizer of a non-identity element is nilpotent, of odd order are solvable harv|Feit|Hall|Thompson|1961. The complete solution was given in harv|Feit|Thompson|1963, but further work on CN groups was done in harv|Suzuki|1961, giving more detailed information about the structure of these groups. For instance, a non-solvable CN group "G" is such that its largest solvable normal subgroup "O"∞("G") is a 2-group, and the quotient is a group of even order.References
*citation|first=William|last=Burnside|author1-link=William Burnside| isbn=0486495752 (2004 reprinting)|year=1911|title=Theory of groups of finite order|pages=503 (note M)
*Citation | last1=Feit | first1=Walter | author1-link=Walter Feit | last2=Thompson | first2=John G. | author2-link=John G. Thompson | last3=Hall | first3=Marshall, Jr. | author3-link=Marshall Hall (mathematician) | title=Finite groups in which the centralizer of any non-identity element is nilpotent | doi=10.1007/BF01180468 | id=MathSciNet | id = 0114856 | year=1960 | journal=Math. Z. | issn=0025-5874 | volume=74 | pages=1–17
*Citation | last1=Feit | first1=Walter | author1-link=Walter Feit | last2=Thompson | first2=John G. | author2-link=John G. Thompson | title=Solvability of groups of odd order | url=http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Journal?authority=euclid.pjm&issue=1103053941 | id=MathSciNet | id = 0166261 | year=1963 | journal=Pacific Journal of Mathematics | issn=0030-8730 | volume=13 | pages=775–1029
*Citation | last1=Suzuki | first1=Michio | author1-link=Michio Suzuki | title=The nonexistence of a certain type of simple groups of odd order | doi=10.2307/2033280 | id=MathSciNet | id = 0086818 | year=1957 | journal=Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society | issn=0002-9939 | volume=8 | pages=686–695
*Citation | last1=Suzuki | first1=Michio | author1-link=Michio Suzuki | title=Finite groups with nilpotent centralizers | doi=10.2307/1993556 | id=MathSciNet | id = 0131459 | year=1961 | journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society | issn=0002-9947 | volume=99 | pages=425–470
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