A class of hyperrings and hyperfields.
In this paper, specifically, we look at the preservation of the diameter and girth of the zero-divisor graph with respect to an ideal of a commutative ring when extending to a finite direct product of commutative rings.
We give a short account of the construction and properties of left neofields. Most useful in practice seem to be neofields based on the cyclic group and particularly those having an additional divisibility property, called D-neofields. We shall give examples of applications to the construction of orthogonal latin squares, to the design of tournaments balanced for residual effects and to cryptography.