In this paper we investigate commutativity of rings with unity satisfying any one of the properties: $$\begin{array}{cc}& \{1-g\left(y{x}^m\right)\}[y{x}^m-x^{r}f\left(y{x}^m\right)x^s,x]\{1-h\left(y{x}^m\right)\}=0,\hfill \\ & \{1-g\left(y{x}^m\right)\}[x^{m}y-x^{r}f\left(y{x}^m\right)x^s,x]\{1-h\left(y{x}^m\right)\}=0,\hfill \\ & y^t[x,y^n]=g\left(x\right)[f\left(x\right),y]h\left(x\right)\mathrm{a}nd[x,y^n]y^t=g\left(x\right)[f\left(x\right),y]h\left(x\right)\hfill \end{array}$$ for some $f\left(X\right)$ in $X^2\mathbb{Z}\left[X\right]$ and $g\left(X\right)$, $h\left(X\right)$ in $\mathbb{Z}\left[X\right]$, where $m\ge 0$, $r\ge 0$, $s\ge 0$, $n>0$, $t>0$ are non-negative integers. We also extend these results to the case when integral exponents in the underlying conditions are no longer fixed, rather they depend on the pair of ring elements $x$ and $y$ for their values. Further, under different appropriate constraints on commutators, commutativity of rings has been studied. These results...

Let $R$ be an associative ring with identity $1$ and $J\left(R\right)$ the Jacobson radical of $R$. Suppose that $m\ge 1$ is a fixed positive integer and $R$ an $m$-torsion-free ring with $1$. In the present paper, it is shown that $R$ is commutative if $R$ satisfies both the conditions (i) $[x^m,y^m]=0$ for all $x,y\in R\setminus J\left(R\right)$ and (ii) $[x,[x,y^m]]=0$, for all $x,y\in R\setminus J\left(R\right)$. This result is also valid if (ii) is replaced by (ii)’ $[{\left(yx\right)}^m{x}^m-x^m{\left(xy\right)}^m,x]=0$, for all $x,y\in R\setminus N\left(R\right)$. Our results generalize many well-known commutativity theorems (cf. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [9], [10], [11] and [14]). ...

Let $R$ be an associative unital ring and let $a\in R$ be a strongly nil clean element. We introduce a new idea for examining the properties of these elements. This approach allows us to generalize some results on nil clean and strongly nil clean rings. Also, using this technique many previous proofs can be significantly shortened. Some shorter proofs concerning nil clean elements in rings in general, and in matrix rings in particular, are presented, together with some generalizations of these...