The Center and Radius of the Regular Graph of Ideals

Abstract

The regular graph of ideals of the commutative ring $R$, denoted by ${\Gamma }_{reg}(R)$, is a graph whose vertex set is the set of all non-trivial ideals of $R$ and two distinct vertices $I$ and $J$ are adjacent if and only if either $I$ contains a $J$-regular element or $J$ contains an $I$-regular element. In this paper, it is proved that the radius of ${\Gamma }_{reg}(R)$ equals $3$. The central vertices of ${\Gamma }_{reg}(R)$ are determined, too.

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