International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 24 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 55-57
doi:10.1155/S0161171200004245
A note on centralizers
Department of Mathematics, Brock University, Ontario, ST. Catharines L2S 3A1, Canada
Received 3 January 2000
Copyright © 2000 Howard E. Bell. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For prime rings R, we characterize the set U∩CR([U,U]),
where U is a right ideal of R; and we apply our result to
obtain a commutativity-or-finiteness theorem. We include extensions
to semiprime rings.