The rings considered in this article are commutative with identity. This article is motivated by the work on comaximal graphs of rings.  In this article, with any ring $R$, we associate an undirected graph denoted by $G(R)$, whose vertex set is the set of all elements of $R$ and distinct vertices $x,y$ are joined by an edge in $G(R)$ if and only if $Rxcap Ry = Rxy$.  In Section 2 of this articl...

Let R be a commutative ring with identity such that R admits at least two maximal ideals. In this article, we associate a graph with R whose vertex set is the set of all proper ideals I of R such that I is not contained in the Jacobson radical of R and distinct vertices I and J are joined by an edge if and only if I and J are not comparable under the inclusion relation. The aim of this article ...

Acknowledgments I would like to begin by thanking my advisor, Professor Alexander Diesl, for his encouragement and excitement for my research. He has always remained supportive and interested in my work, and his many questions have kept me motivated and excited about my project. I would like to thank him as well for being understanding about my silly questions, helping me piece apart my convolu...

Let L be the zero set of a nonconstant monic polynomial with complex coe¢ cients. In the context of constructive mathematics without countable choice, it may not be possible to construct an element of L. In this paper we introduce a notion of distance from a point to a subset, more general than the usual one, that allows us to measure distances to subsets like L. To verify the correctness of th...