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Graphs on groups, 8
The dark clouds seem to have lifted a bit. Perhaps now, that the last rush of conferences for a while is over, life can return to something like normality … For me the most significant event was the last in … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, events, open problems
Tagged graphs and groups, matching number, power graph
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A new constant?
This is an appeal for help. Has anyone come across the constant 2.648102…? Here is the background, which connects with my previous posts about graphs on groups. We are interested in the clique number of the power graph of the … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, open problems
Tagged clique number, Euler's function, power graph
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Graphs on groups, 2
I wrote the long post about this to try to write it out of my system. No luck … I mentioned in that survey that every finite graph is embeddable as induced subgraph in the enhanced power graph, deep commuting … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, mathematics
Tagged commuting graph, enhanced power graph
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Ramanujan+100
I have just spent the last four days in Kochi, Kerala, at the International Conference on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, commemorating Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician, on the 100th anniversary of his far-too-early death. The conference had perhaps … Continue reading
Oligomorphic groups: topology or geometry?
One perhaps unexpected result of the pandemic is that there is a huge volume of really interesting mathematics flying around the internet at the moment, courtesy of Zoom and other platforms. This week I went to a talk by Joy … Continue reading
A paradox, and where it led
What is the difference between a contradiction and a paradox? A contradiction is a dead end, a sign that the road leads nowhere and you should turn back and take the other road. A paradox, however, is an invitation to … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged Anti-foundation Axiom, Bea Adam-Day, random graph
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Perfectness of the power graph
The power graph of a group is the graph whose vertices are the group elements (sometimes the identity is excluded but it doesn’t matter here), in which x and y are joined if one is a power of the other. … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged commuting graph, Lovász, partial preorder, perfect graph, power graph
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On the Frattini subgroup
I wrote earlier about the Frattini subgroup of a group. It can be defined in either of two ways (as the set of non-generators of a group, the elements which can be dropped from any generating set containing them; or … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged Frattini subgroup, G. A. Miller, writing mathematics
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Surprising fun fact
I have just found a proof of the following. Usual caveat: nobody else has read the proof yet, and I have not carefully checked it. Let G be a finite group. The finite group H will be called an inverse … Continue reading
