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On the Unit Graph of a Noncommutative Ring

Rings and Algebras 2016-04-20 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let RR be a ring (not necessary commutative) with non-zero identity. The unit graph of RR, denoted by G(R)G(R), is a graph with elements of RR as its vertices and two distinct vertices aa and bb are adjacent if and only if a+ba+b is a unit element of RR. It was proved that if RR is a commutative ring and \fm\fm is a maximal ideal of RR such that R/\fm=2|R/\fm|=2, then G(R)G(R) is a complete bipartite graph if and only if (R,\fm)(R, \fm) is a local ring. In this paper we generalize this result by showing that if RR is a ring (not necessary commutative), then G(R)G(R) is a complete rr-partite graph if and only if (R,\fm)(R, \fm) is a local ring and r=R/m=2nr=|R/m|=2^n, for some nNn \in \N or RR is a finite field. Among other results we show that if RR is a left Artinian ring, 2U(R)2 \in U(R) and the clique number of G(R)G(R) is finite, then RR is a finite ring.

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@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}
}

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6 pages. To appear in Algebra Colloquium

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