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FINITE GROUPS WITH THE SAME JOIN GRAPH AS A FINITE NILPOTENT GROUP

Part of: Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

ANDREA LUCCHINI
ANDREA LUCCHINI*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121Padova, Italy, e-mail: lucchini@math.unipd.it
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Abstract

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Given a finite group G, we denote by Δ(G) the graph whose vertices are the proper subgroups of G and in which two vertices H and K are joined by an edge if and only if G = ⟨H, K⟩. We prove that if there exists a finite nilpotent group X with Δ(G) ≅ Δ(X), then G is supersoluble.

MSC classification

Primary: 20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems
Secondary: 20D30: Series and lattices of subgroups

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 640 - 650
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