Nilpotent subgroups of class $2$ in finite groups

Abstract

We show that every finite group $G$ of size at least $3$ has a nilpotent subgroup of class at most $2$ and size at least $|G{|}^{1/32\log \log |G|}$. This answers a question of Pyber, and is essentially best possible.

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