Comparison of graphs associated to a commutative Artinian ring

Abstract

Let R be a commutative ring with $$1\ne 0$$ and the additive group $$R^+$$ . Several graphs on R have been introduced by many authors, among zero-divisor graph $$\Gamma _1(R)$$ , co-maximal graph $$\Gamma _2(R)$$ , annihilator graph AG(R), total graph $$ T(\Gamma (R))$$ , cozero-divisors graph $$\Gamma _\mathrm{c}(R)$$ , equivalence classes graph $$\Gamma _\mathrm{E}(R)$$ and the Cayley graph $$\mathrm{Cay}(R^+ ,Z^*(R))$$ . Shekarriz et al. (J. Commun. Algebra, 40 (2012) 2798–2807) gave some conditions under which total graph is isomorphic to $$\mathrm{Cay}(R^+ ,Z^*(R))$$ . Badawi (J. Commun. Algebra, 42 (2014) 108–121) showed that when R is a reduced ring, the annihilator graph is identical to the zero-divisor graph if and only if R has exactly two minimal prime ideals. The purpose of this paper is comparison of graphs associated to a commutative Artinian ring. Among the results, we prove that for a commutative finite ring R with $$|\mathrm{Max}(R)|=n \ge 3$$ , $$ \Gamma _1(R) \simeq \Gamma _2(R)$$ if and only if $$R\simeq \mathbb {Z}^n_2$$ ; if and only if $$\Gamma _1(R) \simeq \Gamma _\mathrm{E}(R)$$ . Also the annihilator graph is identical to the cozero-divisor graph if and only if R is a Frobenius ring.