Diameter and girth of Torsion Graph

Abstract

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. Let M be an R-module and T (M)* be the set of nonzero torsion elements. The set T(M)* makes up the vertices of the corresponding torsion graph, ΓR(M), with two distinct vertices x, y ∈ T(M)* forming an edge if Ann(x) ∩ Ann(y) ≠ 0. In this paper we study the case where the graph ΓR(M) is connected with diam(ΓR(M)) ≤ 3 and we investigate the relationship between the diameters of ΓR(M) and ΓR(R). Also we study girth of ΓR(M), it is shown that if ΓR(M) contains a cycle, then gr(ΓR(M)) = 3.

Keywords

• diameter
• girth
• multiplication modules
• torsion graphs
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