Three-conjugate characterization of the solvable radical

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,cGg,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 gGg\in G such that, for every a,b,cGa,b,c\in G, the subgroup

g,aga1,bgb1,cgc1\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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