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Spectral radius and second largest eigenvalues of power graphs of finite groups

Spectral Theory 2026-03-03 v2

Abstract

Consider a group G\mathbb{G} and construct its power graph, whose vertex set consists of the elements of G\mathbb{G}. Two distinct vertices (elements) are adjacent in the graph if and only if one element can be expressed as an integral power of the other. In this article, we improved the bounds of the spectral radius of the power graphs of the cyclic group CnC_{n}, the dihedral group D2n\mathcal{D}_{2n}, and the dicyclic group Q4n\mathcal{Q}_{4n}. For npm,n\neq p^{m}, the power graph of the cyclic group CnC_{n} is not a complete multipartite graph. We find the second largest eigenvalue bounds of the same with the clique number. In some cases, we find the bounds are exact if and only if they belong to a particular family of graphs. Lastly, we work on the distance spectral radius of the power graphs of the same groups

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@article{arxiv.2411.18244,
  title  = {Spectral radius and second largest eigenvalues of power graphs of finite groups},
  author = {Priti Prasanna Mondal and Basit Auyoob Mir and Fouzul Atik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.18244},
  year   = {2026}
}