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Semiderivations and Commutativity in Prime Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

H. E. Bell  and
W. S. Martindale III
H. E. Bell
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Brock UniversityST. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaL2S 3A1
W. S. Martindale III
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of MassachusettsAmherst, Massachusetts 01003
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Abstract

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A semiderivation of a ring R is an additive mapping f:R → R together with a function g:R → R such that f(xy) = f(x)g(y) + xf(y) = f(x)y + g(x)f(y) and f(g(x) ) = g(f(x)) for all x, y ∊ R. Motivating examples are derivations and mappings of the form x → x — g(x), g a ring endomorphism. A semiderivation f of R is centralizing on an ideal U if [f(u), u] is central for all u ∊ U. For R prime of char. ≠2, U a nonzero ideal of R, and 0 ≠ f a semiderivation of R we prove: (1) if f is centralizing on U then either R is commutative or f is essentially one of the motivating examples, (2) if [f(U), f(U) ] is central then R is commutative.

Keywords

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , 01 December 1988 , pp. 500 - 508
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1988

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