On the Unit Graph of a Noncommutative Ring
Abstract
Let be a ring (not necessary commutative) with non-zero identity. The unit graph of , denoted by , is a graph with elements of as its vertices and two distinct vertices and are adjacent if and only if is a unit element of . It was proved that if is a commutative ring and is a maximal ideal of such that , then is a complete bipartite graph if and only if is a local ring. In this paper we generalize this result by showing that if is a ring (not necessary commutative), then is a complete -partite graph if and only if is a local ring and , for some or is a finite field. Among other results we show that if is a left Artinian ring, and the clique number of is finite, then is a finite ring.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.2863,
title = {On the Unit Graph of a Noncommutative Ring},
author = {S. Akbari and E. Estaji and M. R. Khorsandi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2863},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages. To appear in Algebra Colloquium