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Consider a graph $\Gamma$. A set $ S $ of vertices in $\Gamma$ is called a {cyclic vertex cutset} of $\Gamma$ if $\Gamma - S$ is disconnected and has at least two components containing cycles. If $\Gamma$ has a cyclic vertex cutset, then it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Ramesh Prasad Panda

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the graph whose vertex set is $G$, and two elements in $G$ are adjacent if one of them is a power of the other. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we find the complexity of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-07 S. Kirkland , A. R. Moghaddamfar , S. Navid Salehy , S. Nima Salehy , M. Zohourattar

The power graph $\mathcal P_G$ of a finite group $G$ is the graph with the vertex set $G$, where two elements are adjacent if one is a power of the other. We first show that $\mathcal P_G$ has an transitive orientation, so it is a perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Min Feng , Xuanlong Ma , Kaishun Wang

There are a variety of ways to associate directed or undirected graphs to a group. It may be interesting to investigate the relations between the structure of these graphs and characterizing certain properties of the group in terms of some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 A. R. Moghaddamfar , S. Rahbariyan , W. J. Shi

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a group $G$ is the simple graph with vertex set $G$ and two vertices are adjacent whenever one of them is a positive power of the other. In this paper, for a finite noncyclic nilpotent group $G$, we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Ramesh Prasad Panda , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

The power graph of an arbitrary group $G$ is a simple graph with all elements of $G$ as its vertices and two vertices are adjacent if one is a positive power of another. In this paper, we generalize this concept to a graph whose vertices…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Abbas Jafarzadeh , Peyman Niroomand , Mohsen Parvizi

A vertex subset $S$ of a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex of $G$ either belongs to $S$ or is adjacent to a vertex of $S$. The cardinality of a smallest dominating set is called the dominating number of $G$ and is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Tao Wang , Qinglin Yu

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ is the simple undirected graph with group elements as a vertex set and two elements are adjacent if one of them is a power of the other. The order supergraph $\mathcal{S}(G)$ of the power graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Manisha , Parveen , Jitender Kumar

The power graph of a group is the simple graph whose vertices are the group elements and two vertices are adjacent whenever one of them is a positive power of the other. We characterize the finite nilpotent groups whose power graphs have…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Ramesh Prasad Panda , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

The power graph of a group $G$ is the graph whose vertex set is $G$ and two distinct vertices are adjacent if one is a power of the other. This paper investigates the minimal separating sets of power graphs of finite groups. For power…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Ramesh Prasad Panda , K. V. Krishna

The prime-coprime graph $\Theta(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the simple graph with vertex set $G$, where two distinct elements are adjacent whenever the greatest common divisor of their orders is either $1$ or a prime. We characterize all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Ravi Ranjan , Shubh Narayan Singh , Surbhi Kumari , Shidra Jamil

A graph is weakly perfect if its clique number and chromatic number are equal. We show that the enhanced power graph of a finite group $G$ is weakly perfect: its clique number and chromatic number are equal to the maximum order of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Peter J. Cameron , Veronica Phan

The power graph of a group is the graph whose vertex set is the set of nontrivial elements of group, two elements being adjacent if one is a power of the other. We introduce some way for find the automorphism groups of some graphs. As an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Sayyed Heidar Jafari

Let $G$ be a finite group and $\sigma$ a partition of the set of all? primes $\Bbb{P}$, that is, $\sigma =\{\sigma_i \mid i\in I \}$, where $\Bbb{P}=\bigcup_{i\in I} \sigma_i$ and $\sigma_i\cap \sigma_j= \emptyset $ for all $i\ne j$. If $n$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Alexander N. Skiba

In this paper, we study different forbidden subgraph characterizations of the prime-order element graph $\Gamma(G)$ defined on a finite group $G$. Its set of vertices is the group $G$ and two vertices $x,y \in G$ are adjacent if the order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Tapa Manna , Angsuman Das , Baby Bhattacharya

Let $G$ be a group. The power graph of $G$ is a graph with vertex set $G$ in which two distinct elements $x,y$ are adjacent if one of them is a power of the other. We characterize all groups whose power graphs have finite independence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-16 P. J. Cameron , S. H. Jafari

The power graph $P(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the undirected simple graph with vertex set $G$, where two elements are adjacent if one is a power of the other. In this paper, the matching numbers of power graphs of finite groups are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Peter J. Cameron , V V Swathi , M S Sunitha

The commuting graph ${\Gamma(G)}$ of a group $G$ is the simple undirected graph with group elements as a vertex set and two elements $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $xy=yx$ in $G$. By eliminating the identity element of $G$ and all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Siddharth Malviy , Vipul Kakkar

The critical ideals of a graph are the determinantal ideals of the generalized Laplacian matrix associated to a graph. A basic property of the critical ideals of graphs asserts that the graphs with at most k trivial critical ideals,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-21 Carlos A. Alfaro , Carlos E. Valencia

A retract of a graph $\Gamma$ is an induced subgraph $\Psi$ of $\Gamma$ such that there exists a homomorphism from $\Gamma$ to $\Psi$ whose restriction to $\Psi$ is the identity map. A graph is a core if it has no nontrivial retracts. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Ricky Rotheram , Sanming Zhou