let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity. an ideal $i$ of a ring $r$is called an annihilating ideal if there exists $rin rsetminus {0}$ such that $ir=(0)$ and an ideal $i$ of$r$ is called an essential ideal if $i$ has non-zero intersectionwith every other non-zero ideal of $r$. thesum-annihilating essential ideal graph of $r$, denoted by $mathcal{ae}_r$, isa graph whose vertex set is the set...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity. An ideal $I$ of a ring $R$is called an annihilating ideal if there exists $rin Rsetminus {0}$ such that $Ir=(0)$ and an ideal $I$ of$R$ is called an essential ideal if $I$ has non-zero intersectionwith every other non-zero ideal of $R$. Thesum-annihilating essential ideal graph of $R$, denoted by $mathcal{AE}_R$, isa graph whose vertex set is the set...

Baker and Norine introduced a graph-theoretic analogue of the Riemann-Roch theory. A central notion in this theory is the rank of a divisor. In this paper we prove that computing the rank of a divisor on a graph is NP-hard. The determination of the rank of a divisor can be translated to a question about a chip-firing game on the same underlying graph. We prove the NP-hardness of this question b...

The concept of the bipartite divisor graph for integer subsets has been considered in [M. A. Iranmanesh and C. E. Praeger, Bipartite divisor graphs for integer subsets, Graphs Combin., 26 (2010) 95–105.]. In this paper, we will consider this graph for the set of character degrees of a finite group G and obtain some properties of this graph. We show that if G is a solvable group, then the number...

Given a smooth complex surface S, and a compact connected global normal crossings divisor D = ∪ i D i , we consider the local fundamental group π 1 (T \ D), where T is a good tubular neighbourhood of D. One has an exact sequence 1 → K → Γ := π 1 (T −D) → Π := π 1 (D) → 1, and the kernel K is normally generated by geometric loops γ i around the curve D i. Among the main results, which are strong...