On the Unit Graph of a Non-commutative Ring

Abstract

Let R be a ring with non-zero identity. The unit graph G(R) of R is a graph with elements of R as its vertices and two distinct vertices a and b are adjacent if and only if a + b is a unit element of R. It was proved that if R is a commutative ring and 𝔪 is a maximal ideal of R such that |R/𝔪| = 2, then G(R) is a complete bipartite graph if and only if (R, 𝔪) is a local ring. In this paper we generalize this result by showing that if R is a ring (not necessarily commutative), then G(R) is a complete r-partite graph if and only if (R, 𝔪) is a local ring and r = |R/𝔪| = 2n for some n ∈ ℕ or R is a finite field. Among other results we show that if R is a left Artinian ring, 2 ∈ U(R) and the clique number of G(R) is finite, then R is a finite ring.