On the width of element order set of a finite group

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This paper studies the structure of finite groups in which the order of every element is divisible by at most two distinct primes. The authors prove that the only possible non-abelian composition factors of such groups are among a finite explicit list of simple groups, including alternating groups \(A_n\) for \(5 \le n \le 11\), selected sporadic groups and specific groups of Lie type. The problem is reduced to the classification of finite non-abelian simple groups whose spectra \(\omega(G)\) contain only elements with at most two prime divisors. This classification is carried out using a combination of known spectral results for simple groups, number-theoretic lemmas on the divisibility of expressions such as \(q^n \pm 1\) and a detailed case-by-case analysis.











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