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A problem of Paul Erdös on groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

B. H. Neumann
B. H. Neumann
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Canberra, Australia
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Let G be a group, and associate with G a graph 1 γ = Γ (G) as follows: the vertices of Γ are the elements of G, and two vertices g, h of Γ are joined by an undirected edge if, and only if, g and h do not commute as elements of G, that is [g, h] ≠ 1 [where [g, h] is the commutator g−1h−1gh, and 1 is the unit element of the groups that occur as well as the integer, according to context].We are interested in complete subgraphs of Γ, or equivalently in sets of elements of G no two of which commute.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , June 1976 , pp. 467 - 472
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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