Centralizers and Lie ideals
The purpose of this paper is to investigate identities satisfied by centralizers on prime and semiprime rings. We prove the following result: Let be a noncommutative prime ring of characteristic different from two and let and be left centralizers on . Suppose that is fulfilled for all . If
The main result: Let be a -torsion free semiprime ring and let be an additive mapping. Suppose that holds for all . In this case is a centralizer.
We consider rings equipped with a closure operation defined in terms of a collection of commuting idempotents, generalising the idea of a topological closure operation defined on a ring of sets. We establish the basic properties of such rings, consider examples and construction methods, and then concentrate on rings which have a closure operation defined in terms of their lattice of central idempotents.
In this paper we investigate commutativity of ring with involution which admits a derivation satisfying certain algebraic identities on Jordan ideals of . 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.