Maximum and Minimum Degree Energy of Commuting Graph for Dihedral Groups

Abstract

If G is a finite group and Z(G) is the centre of G, then the commuting graph for G, denoted by ΓG, has G\Z(G) as its vertices set with two distinct vertices vp and vq are adjacent if vp vq = vq vp. The degree of the vertex vp of ΓG, denoted by 𝑑𝑑𝑣𝑣𝑝𝑝 , is the number of vertices adjacent to vp. The maximum (or minimum) degree matrix of ΓG is a square matrix whose (p,q)-th entry is max{𝑑𝑑𝑣𝑣𝑝𝑝,𝑑𝑑𝑣𝑣𝑞𝑞 } (or min{𝑑𝑑𝑣𝑣𝑝𝑝,𝑑𝑑𝑣𝑣𝑞𝑞 }) whenever vp and vq are adjacent, otherwise, it is zero. This study presents the maximum and minimum degree energies of ΓG for dihedral groups of order 2n, D2n by using the absolute eigenvalues of the corresponding maximum degree matrices (MaxD(ΓG)) and minimum degree matrices (MinD(ΓG)). Here, the comparison of maximum and minimum degree energy of ΓG for D2n is discussed by considering odd and even n cases. The result shows that for each case, both energies are non-negative even integers and always equal.