Centralizers of Lie structure of triangular algebras (Q2081539): Difference between revisions

In recent decades, there has been great interest in the study of mappings on rings and operator algebras through their actions on a set of elements. In this paper, the authors characterize Lie centralizers through the actions on a set of elements whose products equal to a fixed idempotent. Let \(\mathcal{T}=Tri (\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{M}, \mathcal{B})\) be a triangular algebra, where \(\mathcal{A}\) is a unital algebra, \(\mathcal{B}\) is an algebra which is not necessarily unital, and \(\mathcal{M}\) is a faithful \((\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B})\)-bimodule which is unital as a left \(\mathcal{A}\)-module. Let \(P=\left (\begin{array}{rr} 1&0\\ 0&0\\ \end{array}\right )\), then \(P\) is an idempotent of \(\mathcal{T}\). The authors show that, under some mild conditions on \(\mathcal{T}\), if \(\phi : \mathcal{T}\to \mathcal{T}\) is a linear mapping satisfying \[A, B\in \mathcal{T}, AB=P\Longrightarrow \phi ([A, B])=[A, \phi (B)]=[\phi (A), B],\] then \(\phi =\psi +\gamma\), where \(\psi :\mathcal{T}\to \mathcal{T}\) is a centralizer and \(\gamma :\mathcal{T}\to Z(\mathcal{T})\) is a linear map vanishing at commutators \([A, B]\) with \(AB=P\).