Posner's second theorem for skew derivations on multilinear polynomials on left ideals. (Q2901915)

The authors consider generalizations of a commuting derivation to a commuting skew derivation on images of multilinear polynomials. Specifically, let \(R\) be prime ring with \(\text{char\,}R\neq 2\), center \(Z(R)\), nonzero left ideal \(I\), symmetric Martindale quotient ring \(Q\), and extended centroid \(C\). Denote by \(G\) a nonzero skew derivation of \(R\) and by \(f(X)=f(x_1,\dots,x_n)\in Q\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}\) a multilinear polynomial. The main result in the paper assumes that for all \(y_j\in I\), \([G(f(y_1,\dots,y_n)),f(y_1,\dots,y_n)]\in Z(R)\) and shows that there is an idempotent \(e\in Q\) satisfying \(RCe=IC\) and \(f(X)\) has central values on \(eRCe\).