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Category Archives: exposition
Graphs on groups, 5
I gave two lectures on this stuff to a new research seminar on Groups and Graphs, run by Vijayakumar Ambat in Kochi, Kerala. The first was an introduction to the hierarchy, the second was about cographs and twin reduction, why … Continue reading
Posted in events, exposition, open problems
Tagged cograph, commuting graph, nilpotent group, perfect graph, power graph
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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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The Fitting subgroup
I have talked a bit about the Frattini subgroup. Time for its big brother. The definition of the Fitting subgroup F(G) of a finite group G is the unique maximal normal nilpotent subgroup of G. As such, of course, it … Continue reading
Posted in exposition
Tagged Fitting subgroup, Frattini argument, nilpotence, Sylow's theorem
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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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Integrals of groups revisited
After my trip to Florence in February, I wrote about the work I did there with Carlo Casolo and Francesco Matucci. After Carlo’s untimely death the following month, we were left with many pages of notes from him about the … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged Carlo Casolo, derived subgroup, Sofos Efthymios
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Puzzle solution
Thank you, Honza, spot on. In 1964, Richard Rado published a construction of a universal graph, a countable graph which embeds every finite or countable graph as an induced subgraph. His graph turns out to be an explicit example of … Continue reading
Posted in exposition
Tagged countable random graph, Henson graphs, hereditarily finite set theory, Rado graph
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Peter Sarnak’s Hardy Lecture
Yesterday, Peter Sarnak gave the London Mathematical Society’s 2020 Hardy Lecture (remotely). He talked about gaps in the spectra of connected cubic graphs. It was a talk properly described as a tour de force, applying to the problem ideas from … Continue reading
Posted in events, exposition
Tagged Alan Hoffman, fullerenes, generalised line graphs, Ramanujan graphs, spectral gaphs, waveguides
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