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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Posner (1) proved the following result:
Theorem. Let R be a prime ring and d a derivation of R such that, for all a∈R, ad(a)–d(a) a∈Z (centre of R). Then, if d is not a zero derivation, R is commutative.
The purpose of this note is to give a short proof of this theorem. We state the following known result ((1), Lemma 1).