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On the tree-number of the power graph associated with a finite groups

Group Theory 2022-12-12 v1

Abstract

Given a group GG, we define the power graph P(G)\mathcal{P}(G) as follows: the vertices are the elements of GG and two vertices xx and yy are joined by an edge if xy\langle x \rangle \subseteq \langle y \rangle or yx\langle y \rangle \subseteq \langle x \rangle. Obviously the power graph of any group is always connected, because the identity element of the group is adjacent to all other vertices. We consider κ(G)\kappa(G), the number of spanning trees of the power graph associated with a finite group GG. In this paper, for a finite group GG, first we represent some properties of P(G)\mathcal{P}(G), then we are going to find some divisors of κ(G)\kappa(G), and finally we prove that the simple group A6L2(9)A_6\cong L_2(9) is uniquely determined by tree-number of its power graph among all finite simple groups.

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@article{arxiv.2212.04695,
  title  = {On the tree-number of the power graph associated with a finite groups},
  author = {Sakineh Rahbariyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04695},
  year   = {2022}
}