A graph related to the sum of element orders of a finite group
Abstract
A finite group is called -divisible iff for any subgroup of a finite group . Here, is the sum of element orders of . For now, the only known examples of such groups are the cyclic ones of square-free order. The existence of non-abelian -divisible groups still constitutes an open question. The aim of this paper is to make a connection between the -divisibility property and graph theory. Hence, for a finite group , we introduce a simple undirected graph called the -divisibility graph of . We denote it by . Its vertices are the non-trivial subgroups of , while two distinct vertices and are adjacent iff and or and . We prove that is -divisible iff has a universal (dominating) vertex. Also, we study various properties of , when is a finite cyclic group. The choice of restricting our study to this specific class of groups is motivated in the paper.
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@article{arxiv.2203.00071,
title = {A graph related to the sum of element orders of a finite group},
author = {Mihai-Silviu Lazorec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00071},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
accepted for publication; 19 pages