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Derivations of Higher Order in Prime Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Youpei Ye
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Jiang Luh
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Let R be a prime ring of characteristic not 2 and d a derivation of R. It is shown that if d2n is a derivation of R, where n is a positive integer, then d2n-1 = 0.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1996

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