Generalized inverses of centralizers of semiprime rings. (Q2494454)

Let \(R\) be a ring, let \(T\colon R\to R\) be an additive map with range \(R(T)\), and let \(R(T)^\perp\) be the orthogonal complement of \(R(T)\). Call \(T\) a centralizer if \(T(xy)=T(x)y=xT(y)\) for all \(x,y\in R\), and call the centralizer \(S\) a generalized inverse of \(T\) if \(TST=T\) and \(STS=S\). Define \(T\) to be orthogonal if \(R= R(T)\oplus R(T)^\perp\). The principal result of the paper is that if \(T\) is a centralizer on a semiprime ring \(R\), \(T\) has a generalized inverse commuting with \(T\) if and only if \(T\) is orthogonal.