J Austral Math Soc Ser A 59 pp283--286, 1995.
(Received 6 October 1993; revised 16 November 1993)
The aim of this paper is to consider Problem 1 posed by Stewart and Wiegold in [6]. The main result is that if G is a finitely generated perfect group having non-trivial finite images, then there exists a finite image B of G such that the growth sequence of B is eventually faster than that of every finite of G. Moreover we investigate the growth sequences of simple groups of the same order.
1991 AMS Subject Classification: 20F05
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