In this paper we study sub-semigroups of a zero-divisor semigroup S determined by properties of the zero-divisor graph Γ(S). We use these sub-semigroups to study the correspondence between zero-divisor semigroups and zero-divisor graphs. We study properties of sub-semigroups of Boolean semigroups via the zero-divisor graph. As an application, we provide a characterization of the graphs which ar...

The zero-divisor graph of a commutative semigroup with zero is the graph whose vertices are the nonzero zero-divisors of the semigroup, with two distinct vertices adjacent if the product of the corresponding elements is zero. New criteria to identify zerodivisor graphs are derived using both graph-theoretic and algebraic methods. We find the lowest bound on the number of edges necessary to guar...

Let R be a non-domain commutative ring with identity and A(R) be theset of non-zero ideals with non-zero annihilators. We call an ideal I of R, anannihilating-ideal if there exists a non-zero ideal J of R such that IJ = (0).The annihilating-ideal graph of R is defined as the graph AG(R) with the vertexset A(R) and two distinct vertices I and J are adjacent if and only if IJ =(0). In this paper,...

Let R be a commutative ring with identity and let I be an ideal of R. Let R 1 I be the subring of R×R consisting of the elements (r,r + i) for r ∈ R and i ∈ I. We study the diameter and girth of the zero-divisor graph of the ring R 1 I.

Let R be a commutative ring with non-zero identity. The annihilator-inclusion ideal graph of R , denoted by ξR, is a graph whose vertex set is the of allnon-zero proper ideals of $R$ and two distinct vertices $I$ and $J$ are adjacentif and only if either Ann(I) ⊆ J or Ann(J) ⊆ I. In this paper, we investigate the basicproperties of the graph ξR. In particular, we showthat ξR is a connected grap...