A new graph associated to a commutative ring

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a commutative ring with identity. In this paper, we consider a simple graph associated with [Formula: see text] denoted by [Formula: see text], whose vertex set is the set of all nonzero proper ideals of [Formula: see text] and two distinct vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are adjacent whenever [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we initiate the study of the graph [Formula: see text] and we investigate its properties. In particular, we show that [Formula: see text] is a connected graph with [Formula: see text] unless [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to a direct product of two fields. Moreover, we characterize all commutative rings [Formula: see text] with at least two maximal ideals for which [Formula: see text] are planar.