The size of the solvable residual in finite groups
Silvio Dolfi
Università degli Studi di Firenze, ItalyMarcel Herzog
Tel Aviv University, IsraelGil Kaplan
The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, IsraelArieh Lev
The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel

Abstract
Let G be a finite group. The solvable residual of G, denoted by Res(G), is the smallest normal subgroup of G such that the respective quotient is solvable. We prove that every finite non-trivial group G with a trivial Fitting subgroup satisfies the inequality |Res(G)| > |G|β, where
β = log(60)/log(120(24)1/3) ≈ 0.700265861. The constant β in this inequality can not be replaced by a larger constant.
Cite this article
Silvio Dolfi, Marcel Herzog, Gil Kaplan, Arieh Lev, The size of the solvable residual in finite groups. Groups Geom. Dyn. 1 (2007), no. 4, pp. 401–407
DOI 10.4171/GGD/19