Beck's conjecture for annihilating ideal-graphs of commutative rings
Let be a commutative ring with unity. Define the annihilating ideal-graph to have as vertices the nonzero ideals with nonzero annihilator, meaning that there is a nonzero ideal such that ; distinct vertices and are adjacent precisely when . Write for its chromatic number and for its clique number.
Beck's conjecture. For every commutative ring with unity,
The paper states this conjecture as the ring-theoretic claim motivating its extension to multiplicative lattices. The abstract reports a counterexample for multiplicative lattices, while also stating that the conjecture holds for reduced multiplicative lattices; the status of the original ring formulation is not resolved in the supplied text.
References
Primary source
Vinayak Joshi and Sachin Sarode, “Beck's Conjecture For Multiplicative Lattices”, arXiv:1310.4594 (2013).
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