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Are there "binary operations" on graphs like in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_product), which make the set of all graphs ("under consideration")

  • a (abelian) group or
  • a (commutative) ring or
  • a field or
  • some other algebraic structure ? By a graph I mean everything which might be considered a graph, for example a directed graph, undirected graph, graphs with no multiple edges, weighted graphs etc. If so, is there a reference on how the binary operations are construced? I managed to find

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40590-015-0081-7

and

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571065314000092

but don't have access to it.

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    $\begingroup$ You should require the operations to be natural in some sense; better yet would be to specify an appropriate sense of "natural". Otherwise, the answer is that any nonempty set admits binary operations making it a commutative ring. $\endgroup$ May 21, 2016 at 20:24
  • $\begingroup$ All graphs do not form a set, they form just a class.But the groups etc. usually are defined to be sets with operations. $\endgroup$ May 21, 2016 at 20:33

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