Twisted polynomial rings satisfying a polynomial identity (Q762585)

Let R be a noetherian ring with prime radical N. First, the authors investigate conditions for twisted polynomial rings over R to be FBN. They show that if R[x,\(\sigma\) ] is an FBN ring for \(\sigma\) an automorphism of R, then \({\bar \sigma}{}^ m_{Z(R/N)}=1\) for some m where \({\bar \sigma}{}_{Z(R/N)}\) is the induced automorphism of the center of R/N. When R is semiprime PI a stronger result is achieved which deals with certain endomorphisms \(\sigma\). In fact, if R is PI with automorphism \(\sigma\), they show that R[x,\(\sigma\) ] is noetherian PI precisely when \({\bar \sigma}{}^ m=1_{Z(R/N)}\) for some m. In between they show that if R is algebraic over its center and \(\sigma\) is an automorphism such that, for some m, the induced automorphism \({\bar \sigma}{}^ m\) of R/N is conjugation by a unit, then R[x,\(\sigma\) ] is FBN. The rest of the paper is concerned with localization of twisted polynomial rings. For example if R is FBN with enough clans, sufficient conditions are given for a finite normalizing extension of R to be FBN with enough clans. This has two interesting corollaries giving conditions on an automorphism \(\sigma\) for R[x,\(\sigma\) ] to be FBN (PI) with enough clans when R is integral over its center (affine). The paper ends with two examples where R[x,\(\sigma\) ] does not have enough clans - in the second example R is an artinian PI ring with only one proper nonzero ideal.