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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.266205</article-id>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>τ -U-FACTORIZATIONS AND THEIR GRAPHS IN COMMUTATIVE RINGS WITH ZERO-DIVISORS</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Axtell</surname>
                                    <given-names>M.</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Mooney</surname>
                                    <given-names>C.</given-names>
                                </name>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20151201">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2015</year>
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                                        <volume>18</volume>
                                        <issue>18</issue>
                                        <fpage>72</fpage>
                                        <lpage>91</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20151201">
                        <day>12</day>
                        <month>01</month>
                        <year>2015</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 identity, and let τ be a relation on the nonzero, non-unit elements of R. In this paper we generalize the defi- nitions of a factorization and a U-factorization via a relation τ and construct a variety of graphs based on these generalizations. These graphs are then examined in an effort to determine ring-theoretic properties.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Commutative ring</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   irreducible</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   U-factorization</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   τ-factorization</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>   graph</kwd>
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