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| Aug 18, 2015 at 15:54 | comment | added | YCor | Yes, no need. The Burnside result is a 1-generator version of Tits' alternative and could be called the Burnside alternative (any linear group is either locally finite or contains an infinite cyclic subgroup). | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | Yiftach Barnea | No need for the Tits alternative it follows from Burnside's original result. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 11:36 | comment | added | Jason Starr | That is a beautiful answer. Are you using the Tits alternative to conclude local finiteness? | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 23:15 | vote | accept | Yiftach Barnea | ||
| Aug 17, 2015 at 22:57 | history | answered | YCor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |