The purpose of this paper is to investigate identities satisfied by centralizers on prime and semiprime rings. We prove the following result: Let $R$ be a noncommutative prime ring of characteristic different from two and let $S$ and $T$ be left centralizers on $R$. Suppose that $\left[S\right(x),T(x\left)\right]S\left(x\right)+S\left(x\right)\left[S\right(x),T(x\left)\right]=0$ is fulfilled for all $x\in R$. If $S\ne 0$$(T...$

The main result: Let $R$ be a $2$-torsion free semiprime ring and let $T:R\to R$ be an additive mapping. Suppose that $T\left(xyx\right)=xT\left(y\right)x$ holds for all $x,y\in R$. In this case $T$ is a centralizer.

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.

We discuss range inclusion results for derivations on noncommutative Banach algebras from the point of view of ring theory.

Let $R$ be a prime ring, $I$ a nonzero ideal of $R$, $d$ a derivation of $R$ and $m,n$ fixed positive integers. (i) If ${\left(d[x,y]\right)}^m={[x,y]}_n$ for all $x,y\in I$, then $R$ is commutative. (ii) If $\mathrm{Char}R\ne 2$ and ${[d\left(x\right),d\left(y\right)]}_m={[x,y]}^n$ for all $x,y\in I$, then $R$ is commutative. Moreover, we also examine the case when $R$ is a semiprime ring.

Let $R$ be a prime ring of char $R\ne 2$ with a nonzero derivation $d$ and let $U$ be its noncentral Lie ideal. If for some fixed integers $n_1\ge 0,n_2\ge 0,n_3\ge 0$, ${\left(u^{n_1}[d\left(u\right),u]u^{n_2}\right)}^{n_3}\in Z\left(R\right)$ for all $u\in U$, then $R$ satisfies $S_4$, the standard identity in four variables.