English

Bipartite divisor graph for the set of irreducible character degrees

Group Theory 2015-11-25 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a finite group. We consider the set of the irreducible complex characters of GG, namely Irr(G)Irr(G), and the related degree set cd(G)={χ(1):χIrr(G)}cd(G)=\{\chi(1) : \chi\in Irr(G)\}. Let ρ(G)\rho(G) be the set of all primes which divide some character degree of GG. In this paper we introduce the bipartite divisor graph for cd(G)cd(G) as an undirected bipartite graph with vertex set ρ(G)(cd(G){1})\rho(G)\cup (cd(G)\setminus\{1\}), such that an element pp of ρ(G)\rho(G) is adjacent to an element mm of cd(G){1}cd(G)\setminus\{1\} if and only if pp divides mm. We denote this graph simply by B(G)B(G). Then by means of combinatorial properties of this graph, we discuss the structure of the group GG. In particular, we consider the cases where B(G)B(G) is a path or a cycle.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1511.07644,
  title  = {Bipartite divisor graph for the set of irreducible character degrees},
  author = {Roghayeh Hafezieh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07644},
  year   = {2015}
}