Ideals and quotient rings of skew polynomial rings (Q4034563)

This paper is concerned with the Martindale ring of quotients \(Q = Q_ I(S)\) of a skew polynomial ring \(S = R[x;\varphi]\), where \(\varphi\) is an automorphism or derivation of \(R\). In particular, the authors consider those elements \(\lambda \in Q\), which they call weakly regular, such that \(R\lambda\subseteq\lambda R+R\). These are shown to lie inside \(Z^{- 1}Q_ I(R)[x,x^{-1};\varphi]\) in the automorphism case and \(Z^{-1}Q_ I(R)[x;\varphi]\) in the derivation case, where \(Z\) is the centralizer of \(R\) in \(Q_ I(R)[x;\varphi]\). This is applied to identify the extended centroid of \(S\), the \(R\)-stabilizing \(X\)-inner automorphisms of \(S\) and the \(R\)-stabilizing \(X\)-inner derivations of \(S\).