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On Hamiltonicity and Perfect Codes in Non-Cyclic Graphs of Finite Groups

Combinatorics 2025-04-22 v1

Abstract

Let G G be a finite non-cyclic group. Define Cyc(G) \mathrm{Cyc}(G) as the set of all elements aG a \in G such that for any bGb\in G, the subgroup a,b \langle a, b \rangle is cyclic. The \emph{non-cyclic graph} Γ(G)\Gamma(G) of G G is a simple undirected graph with vertex set GCyc(G) G \setminus \mathrm{Cyc}(G) , where two distinct vertices x x and y y are adjacent if the subgroup x,y \langle x, y \rangle is not cyclic. An independent subset CC of the vertex set of a graph Γ\Gamma is called a perfect code of Γ\Gamma if every vertex of V(Γ)CV(\Gamma)\setminus C is adjacent to exactly one vertex in CC. A subset T T of the vertex set a graph Γ \Gamma is said to be a \emph{total perfect code} if every vertex of Γ \Gamma is adjacent to exactly one vertex in T T . In this paper, we prove that the graph Γ(G)\Gamma(G) is Hamiltonian for any finite non-cyclic nilpotent group GG. Also, we characterize all finite groups such that their non-cyclic graphs admit a perfect code. Finally, we prove that for a non-cyclic nilpotent group GG, the non-cyclic graph Γ(G)\Gamma(G) does not admit total perfect code.

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@article{arxiv.2504.14942,
  title  = {On Hamiltonicity and Perfect Codes in Non-Cyclic Graphs of Finite Groups},
  author = {Parveen Parveen and Bikash Bhattacharjya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14942},
  year   = {2025}
}