Commutative rings whose zero-divisor graph is a proper refinement of a star graph

A graph is called a proper refinement of a star graph if it is a refinement of a star graph, but it is neither a star graph nor a complete graph. For a refinement of a star graph G with center c, let G _c ^* be the subgraph of G induced on the vertex set V (G) {c or end vertices adjacent to c}. In this paper, we study the isomorphic classification of some finite commutative local rings R by investigating their zero-divisor graphs G = Γ(R), which is a proper refinement of a star graph with exactly one center c. We determine all finite commutative local rings R such that G _c ^* has at least two connected components. We prove that the diameter of the induced graph G _c ^* is two if Z(R)² ≠ {0}, Z(R)³ = {0} and G _c ^* is connected. We determine the structure of R which has two distinct nonadjacent vertices α, β ∈ Z(R)* {c} such that the ideal [N(α) ∩ N(β)]∪ {0} is generated by only one element of Z(R)*{c}. We also completely determine the correspondence between commutative rings and finite complete graphs K _n with some end vertices adjacent to a single vertex of K _n .