On the Sylow graph of a group and Sylow normalizers. (Q1758955)

Let \(G\) be a finite group and \(G_p\) be a Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of \(G\) for a prime \(p\in\pi(G)\), the set of all prime divisors of the order of \(G\). The automiser \(A_p(G)\) is defined to be the group \(N_G(G_p)/G_pC_G(G_p)\). In this paper, the authors define the Sylow graph \(\Gamma_A(G)\) of a group \(G\) as follows: The set of vertices is \(\pi(G)\) and two vertices \(p,q\in\pi(G)\) form an edge of \(\Gamma_A(G)\) if either \(q\in\pi(A_p(G))\) or \(p\in\pi(A_q(G))\). Then they prove the following theorem: Let \(G\) be a finite almost simple group. Then the Sylow graph \(\Gamma_A(G)\) is connected and has diameter at most 5. Using the results on the Sylow graph of \(G\) some structure information on \(G\) is obtained.