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A note on the orders of finite subgroups in GL(n, Q) ∗ You Xing-zhong † School of Mathematical Science and Computing Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China College of Mathematics and Computing Science, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410077, China Abstract: We give an upper bound depending only on n for the order of a finite subgroup of GL(n, Q) which generalizes a result obtained by Minkowski. Key Words: general linear group; locally finite group; finite group; noetherian ZG-module. CLC number: O152.1 Document code: A GL(n, Q) (Æ 410075) (Æ 410077) GL(n, Q) n Minkowski  ZG- O152.1 ℄ A 1 Introduction Let GL(n,F ) and GL(n,Z) be the general linear groups over a field F and the ring of integers Z respectively. We can see from [1] that if F is a field of characteristic 0, then 3 a subgroup of GL(n,F ) with finite exponent e has order at most en ; if F is the field of rational numbers Q, then a torsion subgroup of GL(n,Q) is finite. Minkowski proved that the order of any finite subgroup of GL(n,Z) is at most N (n), where N (n) is the greatest n(n−1) n n(n−1) n n2 i i common divisor of 2 2 2 (2 − 1) and p 2 (p − 1) for every odd prime p (see i=1 i=1 ∗ (No Æ (No.1004116). † (1968– ), Æ Email: xzyou2003@126.com. 1 [2]). In this paper we give an upper bo