Bounded-diameter conjecture for commuting graphs of centerless finite groups

Let GG be a finite group with trivial centre, and let its commuting graph be the graph whose vertices are the non-central elements of GG, with two distinct vertices adjacent exactly when they commute in GG. Centerless commuting-graph conjecture. There is an absolute constant dd such that the commuting graph of GG is either disconnected or has diameter at most dd. This is proposed after the unrestricted conjecture is disproved by finite special 22-groups with commuting graphs of arbitrarily large diameter; the status of the centerless case is left open in the paper.

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Michael Giudici and Chris Parker, “There is no upper bound for the diameter of the commuting graph of a finite group”, arXiv:1210.0348 (2012).

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