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Paper   IPM / M / 8879
School of Mathematics
  Title:   n-recognition by prime graph of the simple group PSL(2,q)
  Author(s):  Behr. Khosravi
  Status:   Published
  Journal: J. Algebra Appl.
  Vol.:  7
  Year:  2008
  Pages:   735-748
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Let G be a finite group. The prime graph Γ(G) of G is defined as follows. The vertices of Γ(G) are the primes dividing the order of G and two distinct vertices p, q are joined by an edge if there is an element in G of order pq.
It is proved that if p > 11 and p nequiv 1 (mod 12), then PSL(2,p) is uniquely determined by its prime graph. Also it is proved that if p > 7 is a prime number and Γ(G) = Γ(PSL(2,p2)), then GPSL(2,p2) or GPSL(2,p2).2, the non-split extension of PSL(2,p2) by \mathbbZ2� In this paper as the main result we determine finite groups G such that Γ(G) = Γ(PSL(2,q)), where q = pk. As a consequence of our results we prove that if q = pk, k > 1 is odd and p is an odd prime number, then PSL(2, q) is uniquely determined by its prime graph and so these groups are characterizable by their prime graph.


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