Commutativity and Skew-commutativity Conditions with Generalized Derivations

Abstract

Let R be a prime ring of characteristic different from 2 with extended centroid C. Let F be a generalized derivation of R, L a non-central Lie ideal of R, f(x1, …, xn) a polynomial over C and f(R)={f(r1, …, rn): ri ∈ R}. We study the following cases: (1) [F(u), F(v)]k=0 for all u, v ∈ L, where k ≥ 1 is a fixed integer; (2) [F(u), F(v)] = 0 for all u, v ∈ f(R); (3) F(u) ◦ F(v)=0 for all u, v ∈ f(R); (4) F(u) ◦ F(v)=u ◦ v for all u, v ∈ f(R). We obtain a description of the structure of R and information on the form of F.