On Commuting Graph of Group Ring $Z_nS_3$

Authors

  • Yanyan Gao
  • Gaohua Tang
  • Jianlong Chen

Keywords:

group ring, commuting graph, connected component, diameter of a graph.

Abstract

The commuting graph of an arbitrary ring $R$, denoted by $Γ(R)$, is a graph whose vertices are all non-central elements of $R$, and two distinct vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if and only if $ab = ba$. In this paper, we investigate the connectivity and the diameter of $Γ(Z_n S_3)$. We show that $Γ(Z_n S_3)$ is connected if and only if $n$ is not a prime number. If $Γ(Z_n S_3)$ is connected then diam $(Γ(Z_n S_3)) = 3$, while if $Γ(Z_n S_3)$ is disconnected then every connected component of $Γ(Z_n S_3)$ must be a complete graph with same size, and we completely determine the vertice set of every connected component.

Published

2021-05-19

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