Thompson-like characterizations of the solvable radical

Robert Guralnick; Boris Kunyavskiǐ; Eugene Plotkin; Aner Shalev

doi:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.03.001

Thompson-like characterizations of the solvable radical

Robert Guralnick, Boris Kunyavskiǐ, Eugene Plotkin, Aner Shalev^*

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Einstein Institute of Mathematics

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We prove that the solvable radical of a finite group G coincides with the set of elements y having the following property: for any x ∈ G the subgroup of G generated by x and y is solvable. This confirms a conjecture of Flavell. We present analogues of this result for finite-dimensional Lie algebras and some classes of infinite groups. We also consider a similar problem for pairs of elements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	363-375
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Algebra
Volume	300
Issue number	1 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.03.001
State	Published - 1 Jun 2006

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✩ Guralnick was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant DMS 0140578. Kunyavski˘ı and Plotkin were partially supported by the Ministry of Absorption (Israel), the Israel Science Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences, Center of Excellence Program, the Minerva Foundation through the Emmy Noether Research Institute of Mathematics, and the EU networks HPRN-CT-2002-00287 and INTAS 00-566. Shalev was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation and the Bi-National Science Foundation United States–Israel. * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R. Guralnick), [email protected] (B. Kunyavski˘ı), [email protected] (E. Plotkin), [email protected] (A. Shalev).

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