Three-conjugate characterization of the solvable radical

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Let GG be a finite group, and let R(G)R(G) denote its solvable radical, the largest solvable normal subgroup of GG. For g,a,b,c∈Gg,a,b,c\in G, consider the subgroup generated by gg and its conjugates by aa, bb, and cc. Three-conjugate solvable-radical conjecture. The solvable radical of GG coincides with the collection of elements g∈Gg\in G such that, for every a,b,c∈Ga,b,c\in G, the subgroup

⟨g,aga−1,bgb−1,cgc−1⟩\langle g,aga^{-1},bgb^{-1},cgc^{-1}\rangle

is solvable. This would sharpen the proved characterization using seven conjugates and would imply that a finite group is solvable if and only if every four conjugate elements generate a solvable subgroup; the source does not report a resolution.

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Nikolai Gordeev, Fritz Grunewald, Boris Kunyavskii and Eugene Plotkin, “A commutator description of the solvable radical of a finite group”, arXiv:math/0610983 (2007).

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