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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2025
This paper is motivated by two conjectures proposed by Bender et al. [‘Complemented zero-divisor graphs associated with finite commutative semigroups’, Comm. Algebra 52(7) (2024), 2852–2867], which have remained open questions. The first conjecture states that if the complemented zero-divisor graph $ G(S) $ of a commutative semigroup
$ S $ with a zero element has clique number three or greater, then the reduced graph
$ G_r(S) $ is isomorphic to the graph
$ G(\mathcal {P}(n)) $. The second conjecture asserts that if
$ G(S) $ is a complemented zero-divisor graph with clique number three or greater, then
$ G(S) $ is uniquely complemented. We construct a commutative semigroup
$ S $ with a zero element that serves as a counter-example to both conjectures.
The third author is financially supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (DST) via Project CRG/2022/002184.