Abelian sections of the symmetric groups with respect to their index (Q2071766)

It is shown that there exists an asbolute constant \(\alpha > 0\) such that for every natural number \(k\) and every subgroup \(H\) of the symmetric group \(S_k\) with \([S_k:H]\geq 3\), the inequality \[ |H/H'| \leq [S_k: H]^{\frac{\alpha}{\log\log([S_k:H])}} \] holds, and this estimate is in fact best possible.