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Yet another solution to the Burnside problem for matrix semigroups

Group Theory 2019-08-15 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We use the kernel category to give a finiteness condition for semigroups. As a consequence we provide yet another proof that finitely generated periodic semigroups of matrices are finite.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2541,
  title  = {Yet another solution to the Burnside problem for matrix semigroups},
  author = {Benjamin Steinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2541},
  year   = {2019}
}
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