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Left centralizers on rings that are not semiprime
Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
  • Irvin Roy Hentzel, Iowa State University
  • M.S. Tammam El-Sayiad, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2011
DOI
10.1216/RMJ-2011-41-5-1471
Abstract

A (left) centralizer for an associative ring R is an additive map satisfying T(xy) = T(x)y for all x, y in R. A (left) Jordan centralizer for an associative ring R is an additive map satisfying T(xy+yx) = T(x)y + T(y)x for all x, y in R. We characterize rings with a Jordan centralizer T. Such rings have a T invariant ideal I, T is a centralizer on R/I, and I is the union of an ascending chain of nilpotent ideals. Our work requires 2-torsion free. This result has applications to (right) centralizers, (two-sided) centralizers, and generalized derivations.

Comments

This article is published as Hentzel, Irvin Roy, and El-Sayiad, M.S. Tammam. "Left centralizers on rings that are not semiprime," Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 41, no. 5 (2011): 1471-1482. DOI: 10.1216/RMJ-2011-41-5-1471. Posted with permission.

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Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium
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en
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Citation Information
Irvin Roy Hentzel and M.S. Tammam El-Sayiad. "Left centralizers on rings that are not semiprime" Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Vol. 41 Iss. 5 (2011) p. 1471 - 1482
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/irvin-hentzel/5/