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Extending Morgan and Parker's results about commuting graphs

Group Theory 2021-03-15 v1

Abstract

Morgan and Parker have proved that if GG is a group satisfying the condition that Z(G)=1Z(G) = 1, then the connected components of the commuting graph of GG have diameter at most 1010. Parker has proved that if in addition GG is solvable, then the commuting graph of GG is disconnected if and only if GG is a Frobenius group or a 22-Frobenius group, and if the commuting graph of GG is connected, then its diameter is at most 88. We prove that the hypothesis Z(G)=1Z (G) = 1 in these results can be replaced with GZ(G)=1G' \cap Z(G) = 1. We also prove that if GG is solvable and G/Z(G)G/Z(G) is either a Frobenius group or a 22-Frobenius group, then the commuting graph of GG is disconnected.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.07355,
  title  = {Extending Morgan and Parker's results about commuting graphs},
  author = {Nicolas F. Beike and Rachel Carleton and David G. Costanzo and Colin Heath and Mark L. Lewis and Kaiwen Lu and Jamie D. Pearce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07355},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures

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