Bate, MichaelBöhm, SörenMartin, BenjaminRoehrle, Gerhard2024-09-022024-09-022024-07-23Bate, M, Böhm, S, Martin, B & Roehrle, G 2024 'On overgroups of distinguished unipotent elements in reductive groups and finite groups of Lie type' ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.16379ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16379v1ORCID: /0000-0002-6670-0857/work/166663476https://hdl.handle.net/2164/24148We are grateful to M. Korhonen and D. Testerman for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Some of this work was completed during a visit to the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach: we thank them for their support. We thank the referee for a number of comments clarifying some points. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.17317217engmath.GRmath.RT20G15, 14L24QA MathematicsQAPreprint10.48550/arXiv.2407.16379