Posner's second theorem and an annihilator condition.
Let be a prime ring of characteristic different from 2, be its right Martindale quotient ring and be its extended centroid. Suppose that is a non-zero generalized skew derivation of and f(x₁,..., xₙ) is a non-central multilinear polynomial over with n non-commuting variables. If there exists a non-zero element a of such that a[ (f(r₁,..., rₙ)),f(r₁, ..., rₙ)] = 0 for all r₁, ..., rₙ ∈ , then one of the following holds: (a) there exists λ ∈ such that (x) = λx for all x ∈ ; (b) there exist and...
000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 16R50, Secondary 16W55.We present some results about the Z2-graded polynomial identities of block-triangular matrix superalgebras R[[A M],[0 B]]. In particular, we describe conditions for the T2-ideal of a such superalgebra to be factorable as the product T2(A)T2(B). Moreover, we give formulas for computing the sequence of the graded cocharacters of R in some interesting case.Partially supported by MURST COFIN 2003 and Università di Bari.