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On the Order of the Automorphism Group of a Finite Group

John Curran Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand
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Robert Heffernan Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Des Machale Department of Mathematics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Pages 3616-3624 | Received 08 May 2009, Published online: 14 Oct 2011

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