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The quadratic Vieta formulas (x, y) ↦ (u, v) = (x + y, xy) in the complex geometry define a two-fold branched covering ℂ2 → ℂ2 ramified over the parabola u 2 = 4v. Thinking about topics considered in Arnold’s paper Topological content of the Maxwell theorem on multipole representation of spherical functions, I came to a very simple idea: in fact, these formulas describe the algebraic structure, i.e., addition and multiplication, of complex numbers. What if, instead of the field of complex numbers, we consider an arbitrary ring? Namely for an arbitrary ring A (commutative, with unity) consider the mapping Φ: A 2 → A 2 defined by the Vieta formulas (x, y) ↦ (u, v) = (x + y, xy). What kind of algebraic properties of the ring itself does this map reflect? At first, it is interesting to investigate the simplest finite rings A = ℤ m and A = ℤ k ×ℤ m . Recently, it has been very popular to consider graphs associated to rings (the zero-divisor graph, the Cayley graph, etc.). In the present paper, we study the directed graph defined by the Vieta mapping Φ.
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The author dedicates this work with gratitude to A. T. Fomenko, Academician of RAS, on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 181–190, 2015.
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Lipkovski, A.T. Structure Graphs of Rings: Definitions and First Results. J Math Sci 225, 658–665 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-017-3484-3
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