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                                                                <journal-id>ieja</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>International Electronic Journal of Algebra</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1306-6048</issn>
                                                                                                        <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Abdullah HARMANCI</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24330/ieja.266187</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Mathematical Sciences</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Matematik</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>A GENERAL THEORY OF ZERO-DIVISOR GRAPHS OVER A COMMUTATIVE RING</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Anderson</surname>
                                    <given-names>David F.</given-names>
                                </name>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Lewis</surname>
                                    <given-names>Elizabeth F.</given-names>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20161201">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2016</year>
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                                        <volume>20</volume>
                                        <issue>20</issue>
                                        <fpage>111</fpage>
                                        <lpage>135</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20161201">
                        <day>12</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2016</year>
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                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2007, International Electronic Journal of Algebra</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2007</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>International Electronic Journal of Algebra</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Let R be a commutative ring with 1 6= 0, I a proper ideal of R, and ∼ a multiplicative congruence relation on R. Let R/∼ = { [x]∼ | x ∈ R } be the commutative monoid of ∼-congruence classes under the induced multiplication [x]∼[y]∼ = [xy]∼, and let Z(R/∼) be the set of zero-divisors of R/∼. The ∼-zero-divisor graph of R is the (simple) graph Γ∼(R) with vertices Z(R/∼) \{[0]∼} and with distinct vertices [x]∼ and [y]∼ adjacent if and only if [x]∼[y]∼ = [0]∼. Special cases include the usual zero-divisor graphs Γ(R) and Γ(R/I), the ideal-based zero-divisor graph ΓI (R), and the compressed zero-divisor graphs ΓE(R) and ΓE(R/I). In this paper, we investigate the structure and relationship between the various ∼-zero-divisor graphs.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Zero-divisor</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   zero-divisor graph</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   ideal-based zero-divisor graph</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   compressed zero-divisor graph</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   congruence-based zero-divisor graph</kwd>
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