Additivity of Elementary Maps on Rings

Pengtong Li Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, People's Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]

Fangyan Lu Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Abstract

Let ℛ and ℛ′ be rings. Under some assumptions on ℛ, we study the additivity of maps M: ℛ → ℛ′ and M*: ℛ′ → ℛ that are surjective and satisfy M(x M*(y)z) = M(x)yM(z) and M*(yM(x)u) = M*(y)x M*(u) for x, z ∈ ℛ and y, u ∈ ℛ′. In particular, if ℛ is a prime ring containing a non-trivial idempotent, or a standard operator algebra, or a nest algebra on a Hilbert space, or an atomic Boolean subspace lattice algebra on a Banach space, then we can conclude that both M and M* are additive.

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Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank the referee for many helpful comments.

Notes

^#Communicated by W. Martindale.

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