Commutative rings introduce a class of identifiable graphs

Abstract

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity, and $ \mathrm{A}(R) $ be the set of ideals with non-zero annihilator. The annihilating-ideal graph of $ R $ is defined as the graph $AG(R)$ with the vertex set $ \mathrm{A}(R)^{*}=\mathrm{A}(R)\setminus\lbrace 0\rbrace $ and two distinct vertices $ I $ and $ J $ are adjacent if and only if $ IJ=0 $. In this paper, we characterize all positive integers $n$ for which $AG(\mathbb{Z}_n)$ is identifiable.

Keywords

• annihilating-ideal graph
• identifying code
• identifiable graph