The soluble radical and orbits of certain maps on finite groups

Abstract: For each element

u

in a finite group

G

define a map

h e t a_{u} c o l o n G o G

by

h e t a_{u} (g) = [g^{- u}, g]

and set

T h e t a_{G} (u) = g i n G m i d h e t a_{u}^{n} (g) = g h b o x f o r s o m e n > 0

. Then

h e t a_{u}

induces a permutation of

T h e t a_{G} (u)

; let

be the number of orbits apart from

1

. Building on work of J.N. Bray, R.A. Wilson and the second author, we show that the index of the soluble radical of a finite group

G

is bounded in terms of the values of

for

2

-elements

u

.

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