Triangles in the graph of conjugacy classes of normal subgroups

DOI10.1007/S00605-015-0866-9MaRDI QIDQ504107zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors María José Felipe, Carmen Melchor, Antonio Beltrán

Publication date 25 January 2017

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-015-0866-9

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesfinite groupsgraphsnormal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Review text

For many years, mathematicians have considered the correspondence between the arithmetical data given by the conjugacy class sizes of a finite group and the algebraic structure of the group. In this paper, the authors take a slightly different approach and instead consider the conjugacy classes of a normal subgroup \(N\) of a finite group \(G\). They define the graph \(\Gamma_G(N)\) to have as vertices the non-central \(G\)-classes of \(N\) and join two vertices if the class sizes are not coprime. Note, this graph is a subgraph of the usual graph \(\Gamma(G)\) (where the vertices are all non-central conjugacy classes of \(G\) and the rule for the edges is as before), but is not naturally related to \(\Gamma(N)\). \textit{M. Fang} and \textit{P. Zhang} [J. Algebra 264, No. 2, 613--619 (2003; Zbl 1024.20021)] have given a complete list of all finite groups \(G\) such that \(\Gamma(G)\) has no triangles. In this paper, the authors determine the structure of \(N\) when \(\Gamma_G(N)\) has no triangles and when the graph consists of exactly one triangle. To do this they first consider when the graph has 1, 2 or 3 vertices. This is a nicely written paper with examples given to demonstrate all cases can occur.

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