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We show that every solvable group is a subgroup of some monomial real group. This extends a result of Dade, who proved that every solvable group is a subgroup of a monomial group.

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Research supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID-2019-103854GB-100, Generalitat Valenciana AICO/2020/298 and FEDER funds. We thank the referee for helpful comments.

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Moretó, A., Tent, J.F. Solvable real groups. Arch. Math. 116, 481–485 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-020-01561-1

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