Name of Candidate: Ahmed Fekri Serag Aboubakr

Degree: M.Sc
Title of Thesis: Rings with derivations and other maps
Supervisors:
1- Prof. Kamal A. Deeb.
2- Prof. Nagy Mohamed Daif.
3- Dr. MAhmoud Mohamed El-Soufi
Approval 16 /4/2013 Department: Mathematics

ABSTRACT
The recent literature includes several papers on commutativity in prime or semi-prime
rings with commutator constraints involving elements of the ring and images of elements
under suitable maps. There is also growing literature on commutativity-preserving maps f,
defined by the property that whenever x and y are commuting elements of the ring, so are
f(x) and f(y) are commuting. In this thesis, we study commutativity in rings admitting
special kinds of commutativity preserving maps.
This thesis deals with mappings like derivations, generalized derivations and generalized
(ϴ, Φ)-derivations. A derivation d of a ring R is a mapping d: R→ R which is additive and
satisfies d(xy)=d(x)y+xd(y) for all x, y ϵ R. The concept of derivations as well as of
generalized inner derivations have been generalized as an additive function F: R→R
satisfying F(xy)=F(x)y+xd(y) for all x, y ϵ R. More generally, for ϴ and Φ endomorphisms
of $R$, an additive mapping F: R→ R is called a generalized (ϴ, Φ)-derivation if there
exists a (ϴ, Φ)-derivation such that F(xy)=F(x)ϴ (y)+ Φ(x)d(y) for all x, y ϵ R.
The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one includes several types of mappings in
the area of rings and the terminology that are needed in the last two chapters.
Chapter two covers, all these results related to derivations and generalized derivations of
rings that will be needed.
In chapter three, we investigate the commutativity of prime rings admitting generalized
derivations that are strong commutativity preserving (scp) on some appropriate subsets of
such ring. In the first section we prove that, for any prime ring which has a strong
commutativity preserving (scp) generalized derivation
on an ideal of the ring, then this ring must be commutative. We, also, study the same
condition on a Lie ideal of the prime ring. In the last section we investigate the
commutativity of a prime ring that admits a generalized derivation which satisfies some
conditions on a Jordan ideal which is also a subring of the ring.
Chapter four contains the proof that, in a prime ring $R$, any Jordan generalized (ϴ, Φ)-
derivation on a Jordan ideal which is also a subring in the ring is a generalized ( ϴ, Φ)-
derivation on a Jordan ideal which is also a subring of the ring. We also study the
commutativity of a prime ring that admits a generalized (ϴ, Φ)-derivation which is also a
homomorphism or an antihomomorphism on a Jordan ideal which is also a subring of the
ring. In the last section of this chapter we investigate the commutativity of a prime ring that
admits a generalized (ϴ, Φ)-derivation which satisfies some conditions on a Jordan ideal
which is also a subring of the ring.

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