Examples of infinite groups such that all their respective elements are of finite order. I am in need of examples of infinite groups such that all their respective elements are of finite order.
 A: If you want a particularly evil/fascinating example, the Grigorchuk group is finitely generated, and every element has finite order, but it is still infinite. (This is related to Sam Nead's answer).
A: the set of all roots of unity forms a group but order is infinite but order of every element is finite
A: Here is one. Let $(\mathbb{Q},+)$ denote the groups of rational numbers under addition, and consider it's subgroup $(\mathbb{Z},+)$ of integers. Then any element from the group $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ has elements of the form $\frac{p}{q} + \mathbb{Z}$ which is of order at-most $q$. Hence it's of finite order.


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*Group of all roots of unity in $\mathbb{C}^{\times}.$


Here is a link from MathOverflow which might prove helpful.


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*https://mathoverflow.net/questions/57493/is-there-an-infinite-group-whose-elements-all-have-finite-order
A: I wonder how come Tarski monster groups haven't yet been mentioned: these are infinite groups in which all non-trivial finitely generated subgroups are cyclic of order some fixed prime $\,p\,$. These are examples of finitely generated infinite simple groups.
A: Take any infinite set $T$. For instance, $\Bbb{Z}$.
Then the set of all permutations of $T$ (denoted $S_T$) forms a group under function composition. The subset of $S_T$ consisting of those permutations that move a finite number of elements in $T$ then makes up a subgroup of $S_T$.
Why is that?
Let's first explain what "moving an element" means. A permutation $\sigma$ $\in$ $S_T$  moves the element $t$ $\in$ $T$ iff $\sigma$$(t)$ $\neq$ $t$. Thus, permutations that moves a finite number of elements sends "most" elements of $T$ to themselves.
The subset of permutations that move finitely many elements in $T$ is a subgroup of $S_T$, because: the identity permutation moves zero elements, and if say, $\sigma$ $\in$ $S_T$ moves exactly the set $T_1$ $=$ $\{t_1, t_2, ..., t_m\}$ and $\tau$ $\in$ $S_T$ moves exactly the set $T_2$ $=$ $\{t'_1, t'_2, ..., t'_n\}$ where  $T_1$, $T_2$ are subsets of $T$, then $\sigma$$\tau$$(t)$ $\neq$ $t$ for $t$ $\in$ $T$ can occur only if $\tau$$(t)$ $\in$ $T_1$ or $\  t$ $\in$ $T_2$. This means that $\sigma$$\tau$ moves $\lvert T_1\cup  T_2 \lvert$ or less elements, implying that $\sigma$$\tau$ moves finitely many elements,  and therefore implying that our set is closed under composition. Further, the inverse of $\sigma$ moves exactly as many elements as $\sigma$, which I'm sure you can see.
We now establish that in this group all elements are of finite order, yet the group is infinite.
For the first part, assume that $\sigma$ is an element that moves finitely many elements in $T$. Let's say... it moves $m$ elements, and let's call the set consisting of those $m$ elements $T'$. We realize that $\sigma$ can be viewed  as a permutation  in $S_{T'}$ when its domain is restricted to $T'$, and $T'$ being finite gives us $S_{T'}$ being a finite group of $\lvert T' \lvert$$!$ elements. It is intuitive that we can find a subgroup of $S_T$ that is isomorphic to $S_{T'}$; just choose the subgroup that fixes all elements not in $T'$ and permutates $T'$ (verifying that this is a subgroup isomorphic to $S_{T'}$ should be no problem). This subgroup that is isomorphic to $S_T'$ is finite; its elements are thus finite. It is a subgroup of our group of permutations that moves finitely many elements of $T$, and therefore $\sigma$ is of finite order, being in this group.
Finally, note that for any natural number $n$ and any subset of $S_T$ consisting of $n$ elements, say $n$  $=$ $90$ billions, or $n$ $=$ $43$, we can find a permutation that moves exactly those $n$ elements of that particular subset. Furthermore, we can find a permutation cycle that moves those $n$ elements, and such a permutation cycle makes up a cyclic subgroup of order $n$. The point is, for each $n$ $\in$ $\Bbb N$, there is an element in our subgroup of $S_T$ that is of order $n$. The infinity of $\Bbb N$ gives the infinity of our constructed group.
A: $G=(\Bbb Z/2\Bbb Z)^\omega$, or indeed $H^\omega$ for any finite group $H$.
Let $H$ be a finite group, and let $G=H^\omega$, the set of infinite sequences of element of $H$ with multiplication defined componentwise. If the order of $H$ is $n$, then clearly $g^n=1_G$ for each $g\in G$.
Added: For a more interesting example, let $G_n=\Bbb Z/n\Bbb Z$ for $n\in\Bbb Z^+$, and let $G$ be the direct sum of the $G_n$’s. In other words, $G$ is the set of sequences $$\langle m_k:k\in\Bbb Z^+\rangle\in\prod_{k\in\Bbb Z^+}G_k$$ such that only finitely many $m_k$ are non-zero. Then $G$ is infinite, all of its elements have finite order, and for each $n\in\Bbb Z^+$ $G$ has an element of order $n$.
A: Let $\mathcal{P}(X)$ be the power set of a infinite set $X$. Consider the operation of symmetric difference, $\triangle$, on $\mathcal{P}(X)$.
Then, for all $A,B \in \mathcal{P}(X)$ we have that $A\triangle B=(A\setminus B)\cup(B\setminus A)$. It can be seen that $(\mathcal{P}(X),\triangle)$ is a commutative group with every element having order two. Hence, every element has finite order but the group is infinite.
A: How about the group of polynomials with coefficients from the integers mod $2$, under addition. Every element has order $2$, except $0$, which is the identity so has order 1.
You can do the same for polynomials with coefficients in any finite group. The addition of these polynomials is almost the same, just now the coefficients are calculated using the group product of the original coefficients. Each polynomial in this construction has to have finite order by finiteness of the group.
In fact you can do this construction but taking the coefficients to be in any group that answers your question and you get another group which answers your question.
A: $\mathbf Q/\mathbf Z$, and also the group $G^{\mathbb N}$ of infinite sequences of elements in any given finite group $G$ (all whose elements have order dividing $\#G$). 
A: The Burnside groups as discussed on the Wikipedia page.
A: Let $G=\bigoplus_{n=1}^\infty(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})$.
By definition, each $g=(g_i)_{i=1}^\infty\in G$ satisfies $g_i=0$ for all but finitely many $i$, thus $g$ has finite order.
However, it has infinite exponent: Consider $(0,\dots,1,\dots,0)$ with 1 in the $j$th position; it has order $j$.
A: Would this work? 
Consider a group of 2x2 diagonal  matrices with diagonal elements of the form $e^{i\pi\frac pq} $. The identity element  will be the identity matrix. And the order will always be finite due to the property of $e^{i\pi} $ function and the multiplicative property of diagonal matrices. Please point out if there's a mistake 
A: Consider the group of all functions from $N$ to $Z_2$ under pointwise addition, the order of each element is 2 and the cardinality is infinite.
