JOURNAL OF GROUP THEORY, vol.15, no.1, pp.9-22, 2012 (SCI-Expanded)
Hartley asked the following question: Is the centralizer of every finite subgroup in a simple non-linear locally finite group infinite? We answer a stronger version of this question for finite K-semisimple subgroups. Namely let G be a non-linear simple locally finite group which has a Kegel sequence K = {(G(i), 1) : i is an element of N} consisting of finite simple subgroups. Then for any finite subgroup F consisting of K-semisimple elements in G, the centralizer C-G(F) has an infinite abelian subgroup A isomorphic to a direct product of Z(pi) for infinitely many distinct primes p(i).