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We study the connectivity of proper power graphs of some family of finite groups including nilpotent groups, groups with a non-trivial partition, and symmetric and alternating groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Alireza Doostabadi , Mohammad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh Ghouchan

The Divisibility Graph of a finite group $G$ has vertex set the set of conjugacy class lengths of non-central elements in $G$ and two vertices are connected by an edge if one divides the other. We determine the connected components of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Adeleh Abdolghafourian , Mohammad A. Iranmanesh , Alice C. Niemeyer

Let $G$ be a group. The prime index graph of $G$, denoted by $\Pi(G)$, is the graph whose vertex set is the set of all subgroups of $G$ and two distinct comparable vertices $H$ and $K$ are adjacent if and only if the index of $H$ in $K$ or…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-06 S. Akbari , A. Ashtab , F. Heydari , M. Rezaee , F. Sherafati

The enhanced power graph of a group $G$ is the graph $\mathcal{G}_E(G)$ with vertex set $G$ and edge set $ \{(u,v): u, v \in \langle w \rangle,~\mbox{for some}~ w \in G\}$. In this paper, we compute the spectrum of the distance matrix of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Anita Arora , Hiranya Kishore Dey , Shivani Goel

Let $\gamma(G)$ denote the domination number of a graph $G$. A vertex $v\in V(G)$ is called a \emph{critical vertex} of $G$ if $\gamma(G-v)=\gamma(G)-1$. A graph is called \emph{vertex-critical} if every vertex of it is critical. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Weisheng Zhao , Ying Li , Ruizhi Lin

The power graph $\Gamma_G$ of a finite group $G$ is the graph with the vertex set $G$, where two distinct elements are adjacent if one is a power of the other. An $L(2, 1)$-labeling of a graph $\Gamma$ is an assignment of labels from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Xuanlong Ma , Min Feng , Kaishun Wang

For a finite group $G$ with a normal subgroup $H$, the enhanced quotient graph of $G/H$, denoted by $\mathcal{G}_{H}(G),$ is the graph with vertex set $V=(G\backslash H)\cup \{e\}$ and two vertices $x$ and $y$ are edge connected if $xH =…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Luis A. Dupont , Daniel G. Mendoza , Miriam Rodríguez

The study of power domination in graphs arises from the problem of placing a minimum number of measurement devices in an electrical network while monitoring the entire network. A power dominating set of a graph is a set of vertices from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Boris Brimkov , Derek Mikesell , Logan Smith

The energy of a vertex $v_i$ in a graph $G$ is defined as $\mathcal{E}_G(v_i) = |A|_{ii}$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $G$, $A^*$ denotes the conjugate transpose of $A$, and $|A| = (AA^*)^{1/2}$. The total energy of the graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 H. M. Nagesh , U. Vijaya Chandra Kumar , N. Narahari

Let $G$ be a group. The intersection graph of cyclic subgroups of $G$, denoted by $\mathscr I_c(G)$, is a graph having all the proper cyclic subgroups of $G$ as its vertices and two distinct vertices in $\mathscr I_c(G)$ are adjacent if and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-16 R. Rajkumar , P. Devi

For a simple connected graph $ G $ of order $ n $, the normalized Laplacian is a square matrix of order $ n $, defined as $\mathcal{L}(G)= D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}L(G)D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}}$, where $ D(G)^{-\frac{1}{2}} $ is the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Bilal A. Rather , S. Pirzada , T. A. Chishti , Ahmad M. Alghamdi

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $\Delta(G)$ be the prime graph built on its set of conjugacy class sizes: this is the (simple undirected) graph whose vertices are the prime numbers dividing some conjugacy class size of $G$, and two…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Víctor Sotomayor

The interplay between groups and graphs have been the most famous and productive area of algebraic graph theory. In this paper, we introduce and study the graphs whose vertex set is group G such that two distinct vertices a and b having…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Shafiq Ur Rehman , Abdul Qudair Baig , Muhammad Imran , Zia Ullah Khan

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 co-maximal subgroup graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a group $G$ is a graph whose vertices are non-trivial proper subgroups of $G$ and two vertices $H$ and $K$ are adjacent if $HK=G$. In this paper, we continue the study of $\Gamma(G)$, especially…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Angsuman Das , Manideepa Saha , Saba Al-Kaseasbeh

A signed graph is an ordered pair $\Sigma=(G,\sigma),$ where $G=(V,E)$ is the underlying graph of $\Sigma$ with a signature function $\sigma:E\rightarrow \{1,-1\}$. In this article, we define $n^{th}$ power of a signed graph and discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Shijin T , Germina K A , Shahul Hameed K

Let $G$ be a finite group. The solubility graph associated with the finite group $G$, denoted by $\Gamma_{\cal S}(G)$, is a simple graph whose vertices are the non-trivial elements of $G$, and there is an edge between two distinct elements…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-04 B. Akbari , Mark L. Lewis , J. Mirzajani , A. R. Moghaddamfar

Let $n=p_1^{n_1}p_2^{n_2}\ldots p_r^{n_r}$, where $r,n_1,\ldots, n_r$ are positive integers and $p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_r$ are distinct prime numbers with $p_1<p_2<\cdots <p_r$. For the cyclic group $C_n$ of order $n$, let $\mathcal{P}(C_n)$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Sriparna Chattopadhyay , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

The enhanced power graph of a finite group $G$ is the simple undirected graph whose vertex set is $G$ and two distinct vertices $x, y$ are adjacent if $x, y \in \langle z \rangle$ for some $z \in G$. An $L( 2,1)$-labeling of graph $\Gamma$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Parveen , Sandeep Dalal , Jitender Kumar

The critical group of a graph is a finite abelian group whose order is the number of spanning forests of the graph. This paper provides three basic structural results on the critical group of a line graph. The first deals with connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Andrew Berget , Andrew Manion , Molly Maxwell , Aaron Potechin , Victor Reiner