On Commutativity of Rings with Generalized Derivations

The concept of derivations as well as of generalized inner derivations have been generalized as an additive function F : R → R satisfying F(xy) = F(x)y + xd(y) for all x, y ∈ R, where d is a derivation on R, such a function F is said to be a generalized derivation. In the present paper we have discussed the commutativity of prime rings admitting a generalized derivation F satisfying (i) [F(x), x] = 0, (ii) F([x, y]) = [x, y], and (iii) F(x ◦ y) = x ◦ y for all x, y in some appropriate subset of R.