Odd radical subgroups of some sporadic simple groups. (Q2569425)

A non-trivial \(p\)-subgroup of a group \(G\) is called `radical' if it is the largest normal \(p\)-subgroup of its normalizer. Classifying these subgroups up to conjugacy is important as it is the first step in verifying the various conjectures of Alperin/McKay/Dade/Isaacs/Navarro/Uno for \(G\) in characteristic \(p\). If one knows the maximal \(p\)-local subgroups of \(G\) one can obtain the radical \(p\)-subgroups by an inductive procedure, but it is not always easy to tell when two such subgroups are conjugate in \(G\). In this paper the author considers the cases \(p=3,5,7\) for \(G\) being the Monster, the Baby Monster, or the Harada-Norton group, thereby completing the cases \(p\neq 2\) for all the sporadic simple groups. The case \(p=2\) remains open for the Monster and the Baby Monster.