On planarity of compressed zero-divisor graphs associated to commutative rings

Abstract

The equivalence class [r] of an element r ∈ R is the set of zero-divisors s such that ann(r) = ann(s), that is, [r] = {s ∈ R : ann(r) = ann(s). The compressed zero-divisor graph, denoted by Γc(R), is the compression of a zero-divisor graph, in which the vertex set is the set of all equivalence classes of nonzero zero-divisors of a ring R, that is, the vertex set of Γc(R) is Re − {[0], [1]}, where Re = {[r] : r ∈ R} and two distinct equivalence classes [r] and [s] are adjacent if and only if rs = 0. In this article, we investigate the planarity of Γc(R) for some finite local rings of order p 2 , p 3 and determine the planarity of compressed zero-divisor graph of some local rings of order 32, whose zero-divisor graph is nonplanar. Further, we determine values of m and n for which Γc(Zn) and Γc(Zn[x]/(xm)) are planar.