Date of Graduation

Spring 2022

Degree

Master of Science in Mathematics

Department

Mathematics

Committee Chair

Les Reid

Abstract

In this thesis we investigate the chromatic number of the Hasse diagram of a subgroup lattice. We combine results of Bollobás and Tůma to show that there exist infnite groups whose subgroup lattices have arbitarily high chromatic numbers. We show that fnite supersolvable groups have bipartite subgroup lattices but that CLT and non-solvable groups may not have bipartite subgroup lattices. Lastly, we give a preliminary argument suggesting that there are an infnite number of non-solvable groups whose subgroup lattices are bipartite.

Keywords

subgroup lattice, chromatic number, supersolvable, projective special linear groups, lattice, Hasse diagram

Subject Categories

Algebra

Copyright

© Jacob C. Miles

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