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The M-Regular Graph of a Commutative Ring

  • M. J. Nikmehr EMAIL logo and F. Heydari
Published/Copyright: March 25, 2015
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Let R be a commutative ring and M be an R-module, and let Z(M) be the set of all zero-divisors on M. In 2008, D. F. Anderson and A. Badawi introduced the regular graph of R. In this paper, we generalize the regular graph of R to the M-regular graph of R, denoted by M-Reg(Γ(R)). It is the undirected graph with all M-regular elements of R as vertices, and two distinct vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if x+y ∈ Z(M). The basic properties and possible structures of M-Reg(Γ(R)) are studied. We determine the girth of the M-regular graph of R. Also, we provide some lower bounds for the independence number and the clique number of M- Reg(Γ(R)). Among other results, we prove that for every Noetherian ring R and every finitely generated module M over R, if 2 ∉ Z(M) and the independence number of M-Reg(Γ(R)) is finite, then R is finite.

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Received: 2012-8-3
Accepted: 2012-9-21
Published Online: 2015-3-25
Published in Print: 2015-2-1

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