Article contents
ON THE REGULAR DIGRAPH OF IDEALS OF COMMUTATIVE RINGS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2012
Abstract
Let $R$ be a commutative ring. The regular digraph of ideals of $R$, denoted by $\Gamma (R)$, is a digraph whose vertex set is the set of all nontrivial ideals of $R$ and, for every two distinct vertices $I$ and $J$, there is an arc from $I$ to $J$ whenever $I$ contains a nonzero divisor on $J$. In this paper, we study the connectedness of $\Gamma (R)$. We also completely characterise the diameter of this graph and determine the number of edges in $\Gamma (R)$, whenever $R$ is a finite direct product of fields. Among other things, we prove that $R$ has a finite number of ideals if and only if $\mathrm {N}_{\Gamma (R)}(I)$ is finite, for all vertices $I$ in $\Gamma (R)$, where $\mathrm {N}_{\Gamma (R)}(I)$ is the set of all adjacent vertices to $I$ in $\Gamma (R)$.
Keywords
MSC classification
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , October 2013 , pp. 177 - 189
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
References
- 8
- Cited by