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Let $m\ge 0,r\ge 0,s\ge 0,q\ge 0$ be fixed integers. Suppose that $R$ is an associative ring with unity $1$ in which for each $x,y\in R$ there exist polynomials $f\left(X\right)\in X^{2}ZZ\left[X\right],g\left(X\right),h\left(X\right)\in XZZ\left[X\right]$ such that $\{1-g\left(y{x}^m\right)\}[x,x^{r}y-x^{s}f\left(y{x}^m\right)x^q]\{1-h\left(y{x}^m\right)\}=0$. Then $R$ is commutative. Further, result is extended to the case when the integral exponents in the above property depend on the choice of $x$ and $y$. Finally, commutativity of one sided s-unital ring is also obtained when $R$ satisfies some related ring properties.

Let $m>1,s\ge 1$ be fixed positive integers, and let $R$ be a ring with unity $1$ in which for every $x$ in $R$ there exist integers $p=p\left(x\right)\ge 0,q=q\left(x\right)\ge 0,n=n\left(x\right)\ge 0,r=r\left(x\right)\ge 0$ such that either $x^p[x^n,y]x^q=x^r[x,y^m]y^s$ or $x^p[x^n,y]x^q=y^s[x,y^m]x^r$ for all $y\in R$. In the present paper it is shown that $R$ is commutative if it satisfies the property $Q\left(m\right)$ (i.e. for all $x,y\in R,m[x,y]=0$ implies $[x,y]=0$).

Let $R$ be a $2$-torsion free prime ring. Suppose that $\theta ,\phi$ are automorphisms of $R$. In the present paper it is established that if $R$ admits a nonzero Jordan left $(\theta ,\theta )$-derivation, then $R$ is commutative. Further, as an application of this resul it is shown that every Jordan left $(\theta ,\theta )$-derivation on $R$ is a left $(\theta ,\theta )$-derivation on $R$. Finally, in case of an arbitrary prime ring it is proved that if $R$ admits a left $(\theta ,\phi )$-derivation which acts also as a homomorphism (resp. anti-homomorphism) on a nonzero ideal of $R$, then $d=0$...

In this paper we investigate commutativity of ring $R$ with involution ${}^{\text{'}}{*}^{\text{'}}$ which admits a derivation satisfying certain algebraic identities on Jordan ideals of $R$. Some related results for prime rings are also discussed. Finally, we provide examples to show that various restrictions imposed in the hypotheses of our theorems are not superfluous.

Let $R$ be a 2-torsion free prime ring and let $\sigma ,\tau$ be automorphisms of $R$. For any $x,y\in R$, set ${[x,y]}_{\sigma ,\tau }=x\sigma \left(y\right)-\tau \left(y\right)x$. Suppose that $d$ is a $(\sigma ,\tau )$-derivation defined on $R$. In the present paper it is shown that $\left(i\right)$ if $R$ satisfies ${[d\left(x\right),x]}_{\sigma ,\tau }=0$, then either $d=0$ or $R$ is commutative $\left(ii\right)$ if $I$ is a nonzero ideal of $R$ such that $\left[d\right(x),d(y\left)\right]=0$, for all $x,y\in I$, and $d$ commutes with both $\sigma$ and $\tau$, then either $d=0$ or $R$ is commutative. $\left(iii\right)$ if $I$ is a nonzero ideal of $R$ such that $d\left(xy\right)=d\left(yx\right)$, for all $x,y\in I$, and $d$ commutes with $\tau$, then $R$ is commutative. Finally a related result has been obtain for $(\sigma ,\tau )$-derivation....

There is an increasing body of evidence that prime near-rings with derivations have ring like behavior, indeed, there are several results (see for example [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [8]) asserting that the existence of a suitably-constrained derivation on a prime near-ring forces the near-ring to be a ring. It is our purpose to explore further this ring like behaviour. In this paper we generalize some of the results due to Bell and Mason [4] on near-rings admitting a special type of derivation...

Let $R$ be a 2-torsion free prime ring and let $U$ be a Lie ideal of $R$ such that $u^2\in U$ for all $u\in U$. In the present paper it is shown that if $d$ is an additive mappings of $R$ into itself satisfying $d\left(u^2\right)=2ud\left(u\right)$ for all $u\in U$, then $d\left(uv\right)=ud\left(v\right)+vd\left(u\right)$ for all $u,v\in U$.

Let $𝒜$ be a noncommutative prime ring equipped with an involution ‘$*$’, and let ${𝒬}_{ms}\left(𝒜\right)$ be the maximal symmetric ring of quotients of $𝒜$. Consider the additive maps $\mathscr{H}$ and $𝒯:𝒜\to {𝒬}_{ms}\left(𝒜\right)$. We prove the following under some inevitable torsion restrictions. (a) If $m$ and $n$ are fixed positive integers such that $(m+n)𝒯\left(a^2\right)=m𝒯\left(a\right)a^{*}+na𝒯\left(a\right)$ for all $a\in 𝒜$ and $(m+n)\mathscr{H}\left(a^2\right)=m\mathscr{H}\left(a\right)a^{*}+na𝒯\left(a\right)$ for all $a\in 𝒜$, then $\mathscr{H}=0$. (b) If $𝒯\left(aba\right)=a𝒯\left(b\right)a^{*}$ for all $a,b\in 𝒜$, then $𝒯=0$. Furthermore, we characterize Jordan left $\tau$-centralizers in semiprime rings admitting an anti-automorphism $\tau$. As applications, we find the structure of...

Let $\mathscr{H}$ be an infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space and $𝔄$ be a standard operator algebra on $\mathscr{H}$ which is closed under the adjoint operation. It is shown that every nonlinear $*$-Lie higher derivation $𝒟={\left\{{\delta }_n\right\}}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ of $𝔄$ is automatically an additive higher derivation on $𝔄$. Moreover, $𝒟={\left\{{\delta }_n\right\}}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is an inner $*$-higher derivation.

Let $𝔄=\left(\begin{array}{cc}𝒜& ℳ\\ & ℬ\end{array}\right)$ be the triangular algebra consisting of unital algebras $𝒜$ and $ℬ$ over a commutative ring $R$ with identity $1$ and $ℳ$ be a unital $(𝒜,ℬ)$-bimodule. An additive subgroup $𝔏$ of $𝔄$ is said to be a Lie ideal of $𝔄$ if $[𝔏,𝔄]\subseteq 𝔏$. A non-central square closed Lie ideal $𝔏$ of $𝔄$ is known as an admissible Lie ideal. The main result of the present paper states that under certain restrictions on $𝔄$, every generalized Jordan triple higher derivation of $𝔏$ into $𝔄$ is a generalized higher derivation of $𝔏$ into $𝔄$.