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The enhanced power graph, $\mathcal{E}(G)$, of a group $G$ has vertex set $G$ and two elements are adjacent if they generate a cyclic subgroup. In the case of finite groups, we identify some striking and unexpected properties of these…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Daniela Bubboloni , Francesco Fumagalli , Cheryl E. Praeger

For a finite group $G$ and for a fixed positive integer $k$, $k\geq 2$, the $k$-power graph of $G$ is an undirected simple graph with vertex set $G$ in which two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $x^k=y$ or $y^k=x$.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Swathi V , M S Sunitha

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

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 of a finite group $G$ is a simple undirected graph with vertex set $G$ and two vertices are adjacent if one is a power of the other. The enhanced power graph of a finite group $G$ is a simple undirected graph whose vertex…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Parveen , Jitender Kumar , Ramesh Prasad Panda

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 power graph of a group $G$ is a graph with vertex set $G$, where two distinct vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if one of $a$ and $b$ is a power of the other. Similarly, the enhanced power graph of $G$ is a graph with vertex set $G$,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Amar S. Pote , Ganesh S. Kadu

The power graph of a group $G$, denoted as $P(G)$, constitutes a simple undirected graph characterized by its vertex set $G$. Specifically, vertices $a,b$ exhibit adjacency exclusively if $a$ belongs to the cyclic subgroup generated by $b$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Dhawlath. G , Raja. V

The two graphs of the title both have vertex set G. In the intersection power graph, x and y are joined if some non-identity element is a power of both; in the power graph, x and y joined if one is a power of the other. Thus the power graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Sudip Bera , Peter J. Cameron

These notes concern aspects of various graphs whose vertex set is a group $G$ and whose edges reflect group structure in some way (so that they are invariant under the action of the automorphism group of $G$). The graphs I will discuss are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Peter J. Cameron

The $k$th power of a graph $G$, denoted $G^k$, has the same vertex set as $G$, and two vertices are adjacent in $G^k$ if and only if there exists a path between them in $G$ of length at most $k$. A $K_r$-factor in a graph is a spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ajit Diwan , Aniruddha Joshi

The enhanced power graph of a group G is a graph with vertex set G, where two distinct vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if there exists an element w in G such that both x and y are powers of w. To obtain the proper enhanced power…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Sudip Bera

A $P_4$-free graph is called a cograph. In this paper we partially characterize finite groups whose power graph is a cograph. As we will see, this problem is a generalization of the determination of groups in which every element has prime…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Peter J. Cameron , Pallabi Manna , Ranjit Mehatari

In this paper, we first characterize which generalized lexicographic products are divisor graphs. As applications, we show that power graphs, reduced power graphs and order graphs are all divisor graphs, which also implies the main result…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Xuanlong Ma , Liangliang Zhai , Nan Gao , Junyao Pan

The (proper) power graph of a group is a graph whose vertex set is the set of all (nontrivial) elements of the group and two distinct vertices are adjacent if one is a power of the other. Various kinds of planarity of (proper) power graphs…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Alireza Doostabadi , Mohammad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh Ghouchan

The power graph of a finite group $G$ is a simple undirected graph with vertex set $G$ and two vertices are adjacent if one is a power of the other. The enhanced power graph of a finite group $G$ is a simple undirected graph whose vertex…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Jitender Kumar Parveen

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 $\mathcal{P}(G)$ 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

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

Let $\Gamma$ be an undirected and simple graph. 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…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Ramesh Prasad Panda