Beck's conjecture for annihilating ideal-graphs of commutative rings

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Let RR be a commutative ring with unity. Define the annihilating ideal-graph AG(R)\mathbb{AG}(R) to have as vertices the nonzero ideals II with nonzero annihilator, meaning that there is a nonzero ideal JJ such that IJ=(0)IJ=(0); distinct vertices II and JJ are adjacent precisely when IJ=(0)IJ=(0). Write χ(AG(R))\chi(\mathbb{AG}(R)) for its chromatic number and Clique⁡(AG(R))\operatorname{Clique}(\mathbb{AG}(R)) for its clique number.

Beck's conjecture. For every commutative ring RR with unity,

χ(AG(R))=Clique⁡(AG(R)).\chi(\mathbb{AG}(R))=\operatorname{Clique}(\mathbb{AG}(R)).

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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