Certain additive maps on \(m\)-power closed Lie ideals. (Q651413)

Let \(R\) be a prime ring with center \(Z(R)\), (left) Martindale quotient ring \(Q\), extended centroid \(C\), and noncentral Lie ideal \(L\) that is \(m\)-power closed for \(m>1\): if \(x\in L\) then \(x^m\in L\). The first result in this interesting paper is that if \(\text{char\,}R=0\) or \(\text{char\,}R>m\) then \(L\) contains a nonzero ideal of \(R\), unless \(\dim_CRC=4\), \(m\) is odd and \(u^{m-1}\in Z(R)\) for all \(u\in L\). The authors provide examples to show that the characteristic conditions are needed. The other main result describes additive maps \(d\colon L\to R\) satisfying \(d(x^m)=mx^{m-1}d(x)\) for all \(x\in L\), or \(d(x^m)=x^{m-1}d(x)\) for all \(x\in L\), when \(\text{char\,}R=0\) or \(\text{char\,}R>2(m-1)\). For the first case \(d=0\), and for the second, \(d(x)=xq\) for some \(q\in Q\), unless \(\dim_CRC=4\), \(m\) is odd, and \(x^{m-1}\in Z(R)\) for all \(x\in L\). -- The proofs of the results use clever computations.