Characterizations of the solvable radical.

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10066-7MaRDI QIDQ3552107zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Flavell, Simon Guest, Robert Guralnick

Publication date 13 April 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1668

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsconjugacy classesfinite soluble groupssolubilityFitting heightBaer-Suzuki theoremsoluble radicalgeneration by conjugates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite solvable groups, theory of formations, Schunck classes, Fitting classes, (pi)-length, ranks (20D10) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30)

Abstract: We prove that there exists a constant $k$ with the property: if $calC$ is a conjugacy class of a finite group $G$ such that every $k$ elements of $calC$ generate a solvable subgroup then $calC$ generates a solvable subgroup. In particular, using the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, we show that we can take $k=4$. We also present proofs that do not use the Classification theorem. The most direct proof gives a value of $k=10$. By lengthening one of our arguments slightly, we obtain a value of $k=7$.

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