RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STRUCTURE OF A QUOTIENT RING AND THE BEHAVIOR OF CERTAIN ADDITIVE MAPPINGS

The principal aim of this paper is to study the connection between the structure of a quotient ring R/P and the behavior of special additive mappings of R. More precisely, we characterize the commutativity of R/P using derivations (generalized derivations) of R satisfying algebraic identities involving the prime ideal P. Furthermore, we provide examples to show that the various restrictions imposed in the hypothesis of our theorems are not superfluous.