Local commensurability graphs of solvable groups

The commensurability index between two subgroups A,B of a group G is A:A∩B]B:A∩B]. This gives a notion of distance among finite index subgroups of G, which is encoded in the p-local commensurability graphs of G. We show that for any metabelian group, any component of the p-local commensurabilty graph of G has diameter bounded above by 4. However, no universal upper bound on diameters of components exists for the class of finite solvable groups. In the appendix we give a complete classification of components for upper triangular matrix groups in GL(2,𝔽_q).