
CHARACTERIZATION OF RINGS WITH PLANAR, TOROIDAL OR PROJECTIVE
PLANAR PRIME IDEAL SUM GRAPHS
PRAVEEN MATHIL†, BARKHA BALODA†, JITENDER KUMAR†,∗, A. SOMASUNDARAM§
Abstract. Let Rbe a commutative ring with unity. The prime ideal sum graph PIS(R) of the ring Ris the simple
undirected graph whose vertex set is the set of all nonzero proper ideals of Rand two distinct vertices Iand Jare
adjacent if and only if I+Jis a prime ideal of R. In this paper, we study some interplay between algebraic properties
of rings and graph-theoretic properties of their prime ideal sum graphs. In this connection, we classify non-local
commutative Artinian rings Rsuch that PIS(R) is of crosscap at most two. We prove that there does not exist a
non-local commutative Artinian ring whose prime ideal sum graph is projective planar. Further, we classify non-local
commutative Artinian rings of genus one prime ideal sum graphs.
1. Introduction
The investigation of algebraic structures through graph-theoretic properties of the associated graphs has become
a fascinating research subject over the past few decades. Numerous graphs attached with ring structures have been
studied in the literature (see, [2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 27]). Because of the crucial role of ideals in the theory of rings,
many authors have explored the graphs attached to the ideals of rings also, for example, inclusion ideal graph [3],
intersection graphs of ideals [18], ideal-relation graph [26], co-maximal ideal graph [44], prime ideal sum graph [34]
etc. Topological graph theory is principally related to the embedding of a graph on a surface without edge crossing.
Its applications lie in electronic printing circuits where the purpose is to embed a circuit, that is, the graph on a
circuit board (the surface) without two connections crossing each other, resulting in a short circuit. To determine
the genus and crosscap of a graph is a fundamental but highly complex problem. Indeed, it is NP-complete. Many
authors have investigated the problem of finding the genus of zero divisor graphs of rings in [5, 12, 16, 38, 42, 43].
Genus and crosscap of the total graph of the ring were investigated in [11, 23, 28, 36]. Asir et al. [10] determined
all isomorphic classes of commutative rings whose ideal based total graph has genus at most two. Pucanovi´c et al.
[30] classified the planar and toroidal graphs that are intersection ideal graphs of Artinian commutative rings. In
[31], all the graphs of genus two that are intersection graphs of ideals of some commutative rings are characterized.
Ramanathan [32] determined all Artinian commutative rings whose intersection ideal graphs have crosscap at most
two. Work related to the embedding of graphs associated with other algebraic structures on a surface can be found
in [1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 33, 35, 37].
Recently, Saha et al. [34] introduced and studied the prime ideal sum graph of a commutative ring. The prime
ideal sum graph PIS(R) of the ring Ris the simple undirected graph whose vertex set is the set of all nonzero proper
ideals of Rand two distinct vertices Iand Jare adjacent if and only if I+Jis a prime ideal of R. Authors of
[34] studied the interplay between graph-theoretic properties of PIS(R) and algebraic properties of ring R. In this
connection, they investigated the clique number, the chromatic number and the domination number of prime ideal
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification. 05C25.
Key words and phrases. Non-local ring, ideals, genus and crosscap of a graph, prime ideal.
* Corresponding author
†Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani-333031 (Rajasthan), India
§Department of General Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE
Email address: maithilpraveen@gmail.com, barkha0026@gmail.com, jitenderarora09@gmail.com, asomasundaram@dubai.bits-
pilani.ac.in.
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