Abstract
Let be a unital prime ring with characteristic not 2 and containing a nontrivial idempotent. Assume that
is a surjective map. It is shown that f is strong 3-commutativity preserving, that is, f satisfies
for all
, if and only if
for all
, where
is an element in the extended centroid of
with
and
is a map from
into its extended centroid. Applications to prime C
-algebras, factor von Neumann algebras, standard operator algebras and matrix algebras are also obtained .
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to give their thanks to the referees for their helpful comments.
Notes
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