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                                                                <journal-id>ieja</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>International Electronic Journal of Algebra</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1306-6048</issn>
                                                                                                        <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Abdullah HARMANCI</publisher-name>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>A CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GROUP Ap+3 BY ITS NON-COMMUTING GRAPH</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Darafsheh</surname>
                                    <given-names>M. R.</given-names>
                                </name>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Yousefzadeh</surname>
                                    <given-names>P.</given-names>
                                </name>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20120601">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2012</year>
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                                        <volume>11</volume>
                                        <issue>11</issue>
                                        <fpage>160</fpage>
                                        <lpage>164</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20120601">
                        <day>06</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2012</year>
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                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2007, International Electronic Journal of Algebra</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2007</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>International Electronic Journal of Algebra</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>The non-commuting graph ∇(G) of a non-abelian finite group G is defined as follows: its vertex set is G − Z(G) and two distinct vertices x and y are joined by an edge if and only if the commutator of x and y is not the identity. In this paper we prove if G is a finite group with ∇(G) ∼= ∇(Ap+3), then G ∼= Ap+3, where Ap+3 is the alternating group of degree p + 3, where p is a prime number.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>non-commuting graph</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   alternating group</kwd>
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