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We consider the graph $\Gamma_{\rm{virt}}(G)$ whose vertices are the elements of a finitely generated profinite group $G$ and where two vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if they topologically generate an open subgroup of $G$. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Andrea Lucchini

Let $G$ be $2$-generated group. The generating graph of $\Gamma(G)$ is the graph whose vertices are the elements of $G$ and where two vertices $g$ and $h$ are adjacent if $G=\langle g,h\rangle$. This graph encodes the combinatorial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Scott Harper , Andrea Lucchini

Given a 2-generated finite group $G$, the non-generating graph of $G$ has as vertices the elements of $G$ and two vertices are adjacent if and only if they are distinct and do not generate $G$. We consider the graph $\Sigma(G)$ obtained…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Andrea Lucchini , Daniele Nemmi

Let $G$ be a $2$-generated group. The generating graph $\Gamma(G)$ is the graph whose vertices are the elements of $G$ and where two vertices $g_1$ and $g_2$ are adjacent if $G = \langle g_1, g_2 \rangle.$ This graph encodes the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Andrea Lucchini , Daniele Nemmi

Given a finite group $G$, the generating graph $\Gamma(G)$ of $G$ has as vertices the non-identity elements of $G$ and two vertices are adjacent if and only if they are distinct and generate $G$ as group elements. Let $G$ be a 2-generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Andrea Lucchini

For a group $G,$ let $\Gamma(G)$ denote the graph defined on the elements of $G$ in such a way that two distinct vertices are connected by an edge if and only if they generate $G$. Moreover let $\Gamma^*(G)$ be the subgraph of $\Gamma(G)$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Cristina Acciarri , Andrea Lucchini

Assume that $G$ is a finite group. For every $a, b \in\mathbb N,$ we define a graph $\Gamma_{a,b}(G)$ whose vertices correspond to the elements of $G^a\cup G^b$ and in which two tuples $(x_1,\dots,x_a)$ and $(y_1,\dots,y_b)$ are adjacent if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Cristina Acciarri , Andrea Lucchini

Let $(\mathcal{G},\Gamma)$ be an abstract graph of finite groups. If $\Gamma$ is finite, we can construct a profinite graph of groups in a natural way $(\hat{\mathcal{G}},\Gamma)$, where $\hat{\mathcal{G}}(m)$ is the profinite completion of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Mattheus Aguiar , Pavel Zalesski

The $G$-graph $\Gamma(G,S)$ is a graph from the group $G$ generated by $S\subseteq G$, where the vertices are the right cosets of the cyclic subgroups $\langle s \rangle, s\in S$ with $k$-edges between two distinct cosets if there is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Lord Clifford Kavi

We investigate accessible subgroups of a profinite group $G$, i.e. subgroups $H$ appearing as vertex groups in a graph of profinite groups decomposition of $G$ with finite edge groups. We prove that any accessible subgroup $H \leq G$ arises…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Julian Wykowski

Given a finite group $G,$ we denote by $\Delta(G)$ the graph whose vertices are the elements $G$ and where two vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if there exists a minimal generating set of $G$ containing $x$ and $y.$ We prove that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Andrea Lucchini

For a group $G$, the generating graph $\Gamma(G)$ is defined as the graph with the vertex set $G$, and any two distinct vertices of $\Gamma(G)$ are adjacent if they generate $G$. In this paper, we study the generating graph of $D_n,$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 A. Satyanarayana Reddy , Kavita Samant

Let $G$ be a group. A group is said to be $k$-generated if it can be generated by its $k$ elements. A generating set of $G$ is called a minimal generating set if no proper subset of it generates $G.$ A minimal generating set of a group can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Kavita Samant , A. Satyanarayana Reddy

Given a finite group $G$, denote by $\Gamma(G)$ the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the distinct sizes of noncentral conjugacy classes of $G$, and set two vertices of $\Gamma(G)$ to be adjacent if and only if they are not coprime…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Mariagrazia Bianchi , Rachel D. Camina , Marcel Herzog , Emanuele Pacifici

Let $G$ be a finite group and let $N$ be a normal subgroup of $G$. We attach to $N$ two graphs ${\Gamma}_G(N)$ and ${\Gamma}^{\ast}_G(N)$ related to the conjugacy classes of $G$ contained in $N$ and to the set of primes dividing the sizes…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Antonio Beltrán , María José Felipe , Carmen Melchor

The Gruenberg--Kegel graph (or the prime graph) $\Gamma(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is defined as follows. The vertex set of $\Gamma(G)$ is the set of all prime divisors of the order of $G$. Two distinct primes $r$ and $s$ regarded as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-15 A. P. Khramova , N. V. Maslova , V. V. Panshin , A. M. Staroletov

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 {\it prime graph} $\Gamma(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the graph whose vertex set is the set of prime divisors of $|G|$ and in which two distinct vertices $r$ and $s$ are adjacent if and only if there exists an element of $G$ of order…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Ilya Gorshkov , Alexey Staroletov

A {\it graph product} $G$ on a graph $\Gamma$ is a group defined as follows: For each vertex $v$ of $\Gamma$ there is a corresponding non-trivial group $G_v$. The group $G$ is the quotient of the free product of the $G_v$ by the commutation…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Michael Mihalik

The {\em distinguishing number} of a group $G$ acting faithfully on a set $V$ is the least number of colors needed to color the elements of $V$ so that no non-identity element of the group preserves the coloring. The {\em distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Simon M. Smith , Thomas W. Tucker , Mark E. Watkins
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