It is shown that every algebraic isomorphism between standard subalgebras of 𝒥-subspace lattice algebras is quasi-spatial and every Jordan derivation of standard subalgebras of 𝒥-subspace lattice algebras is an additive derivation. Also, it is proved that every finite rank operator in a 𝒥-subspace lattice algebra can be written as a finite sum of rank one operators each belonging to that algebra. As an additional result, a multiplicative bijection of a 𝒥-subspace lattice algebra onto an arbitrary...

Let $R$ be a prime ring of characteristic different from $2$, $U$ the Utumi quotient ring of $R$, $C=Z\left(U\right)$ the extended centroid of $R$, $L$ a non-central Lie ideal of $R$, $F$ a non-zero generalized derivation of $R$. Suppose that $\left[F\right(u),u]F\left(u\right)=0$ for all $u\in L$, then one of the following holds: (1) there exists $\alpha \in C$ such that $F\left(x\right)=\alpha x$ for all $x\in R$; (2) $R$ satisfies the standard identity $s_4$ and there exist $a\in U$ and $\alpha \in C$ such that $F\left(x\right)=ax+xa+\alpha x$ for all $x\in R$. We also extend the result to the one-sided case. Finally, as an application we obtain some range inclusion results of...

Let T be a spherical 2-expansive m-tuple and let $T^{}$ denote its spherical Cauchy dual. If $T^{}$ is commuting then the inequality $\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{{\sum }_{\left|\beta \right|=k}{(\beta !)}^{-1}{\left(T^{}\right)}^{\beta }\left(T^{}\right){*}^{\beta }\le (k+m-1}{k){\sum }_{\left|\beta \right|=k}{(\beta !)}^{-1}\left(T^{}\right){*}^{\beta }{\left(T^{}\right)}^{\beta }}$ holds for every positive integer k. In case m = 1, this reveals the rather curious fact that all positive integral powers of the Cauchy dual of a 2-expansive (or concave) operator are hyponormal.

The problem of when derivations (and their powers) have the range in the Jacobson radical is considered. The proofs are based on the density theorem for derivations.

We survey some old and new results in the theory of derivations on Banach algebras. Although our overview is broad ranging, our principal interest is in recent results concerning conditions on a derivation implying that its range is contained in the radical of the algebra.