Date of Graduation
Fall 2009
Degree
Master of Science in Mathematics
Department
Mathematics
Committee Chair
Les Reid
Abstract
Subgroup graphs have been studied by Bohannon and Reid, classifying groups which have planar subgroup graphs and groups with eulerian subgroup graphs. Many more graph theoretic properties of subgroup graphs are unknown. In this thesis we investigate the hamiltonicity of subgroup graphs, focusing primarily on rank 3 finite abelian p-group, proving that many of them have hamiltonian subgroup graphs. We also present a number of groups which do not have hamiltonian subgroup graphs, a complete classification of which cyclic groups have hamiltonian subgroup graphs, and some tools to find hamiltonian cycles in direct products of p-groups.
Keywords
subgroup graph, algebra, group theory, graph theory, hamiltonian
Subject Categories
Mathematics
Copyright
© Immanuel David McLaughlin
Recommended Citation
McLaughlin, Immanuel David, "Hamiltonian Subgroup Graphs" (2009). MSU Graduate Theses. 1632.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/1632
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