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Solvable and non-solvable finite groups of the same order type

Group Theory 2025-06-18 v2

Abstract

We construct two finite groups of size 2365310571042^{365}\cdot 3^{105}\cdot 7^{104}: a solvable group GG and a non-solvable group HH, such that for every integer nn the groups have the same number of elements of order nn. This answers a question posed in 1987 by John G. Thompson.

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@article{arxiv.2403.02197,
  title  = {Solvable and non-solvable finite groups of the same order type},
  author = {Paweł Piwek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02197},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages; added a section on how these examples were found