Vdovin's conjecture on intersections of nilpotent subgroups

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Let GG be a finite simple group and let HH be a nilpotent subgroup of GG.

Vdovin's conjecture. Then H∩Hx=1H \cap H^x = 1 for some x∈Gx \in G.

This conjecture concerns whether every nilpotent subgroup of a finite simple group has a conjugate with trivial intersection. It has been resolved for alternating and sporadic groups; the paper's abstract states that its proof is completed using results for the remaining simple groups.

References

Primary source

Timothy C. Burness and Hong Yi Huang, “On the intersections of nilpotent subgroups in simple groups”, arXiv:2508.03479 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2207.09495.

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