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Automorphism groups of nil-clean graphs for certain rings

Qing He1, Huadong Su2, Yangjiang Wei1
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530100, P. R. China
2School of Science, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou 535011, P. R. China
Copyright © Qing He, Huadong Su, Yangjiang Wei. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Let R be a ring with identity. The nil-clean graph of R is a graph, denoted by GNC(R), whose vertex-set is the set R, and where two distinct vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if x + y is a nil-clean element of R. An element r ∈ R is called a nil-clean element if it can be decomposed a sum of an idempotent and a nilpotent element of R. Let G be a finite undirected graph. An automorphism φ of G is a permutation on the vertex-set V(G) such that the graph preserves adjacency, that is, φ(v1) is adjacent to φ(v2) if and only if v1 is adjacent to v2. The set of all automorphisms of G together with the composition operation of permutations forms the automorphism group of G. In this paper, we firstly compute the order of the automorphism groups of nil-clean graphs for the ring n. And then we determine the structure of the automorphism groups of GNC(ℤn) for n = pk, pq, 2kpl, where p, q are distinct primes and k, l are positive integers.

Keywords: automorphism, nil-clean graph, the ring of modulo n integers