Metric and upper dimension of zero divisor graphs associated to commutative rings (Q2220235)

The zero divisor graph of a nontrivial commutative ring \(R\), denoted by \(\Gamma(R)\), is the graph whose vertices are the nonzero zero-divisors of \(R\) and two distinct vertices \(x\) and \(y\) are adjacent if and only if \(xy = 0\). In the paper under review the authors conjecture that the metric dimension \(\dim(\Gamma(R))\) coincide with the upper dimension \(\dim^+(\Gamma(R))\), with one exception that \(R\cong \prod \mathbb{Z}_2^n\) for \(n\geq4\). They verify that this conjecture is true for several classes of rings, including the classes of local and reduced artinian rings.