Abelian covers of alternating groups

DOI10.1007/S00013-016-0926-YMaRDI QIDQ304065zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Barrantes, Nick Gill, Jeremías Ramírez

Publication date 23 August 2016

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05953

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupcommuting graphindependence numberclique covering numberfinite simple group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Symmetric groups (20B30) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60)

Abstract: Let $G=A_n$, a finite alternating group. We study the commuting graph of $G$ and establish, for all possible values of $n$ barring $13,14,17$ and $19$, whether or not the independence number is equal to the clique-covering number.

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