There is an increasing body of evidence that prime near-rings with derivations have ring like behavior, indeed, there are several results (see for example [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [8]) asserting that the existence of a suitably-constrained derivation on a prime near-ring forces the near-ring to be a ring. It is our purpose to explore further this ring like behaviour. In this paper we generalize some of the results due to Bell and Mason [4] on near-rings admitting a special type of derivation namely $(\sigma ,\tau )$- derivation where $\sigma ,\tau $ are automorphisms of the near-ring. Finally, it is shown that under appropriate additional hypothesis a near-ring must be a commutative ring.
@article{107910, author = {Mohammad Ashraf and Asma Ali and Shakir Ali}, title = {$(\sigma,\tau)$-derivations on prime near rings}, journal = {Archivum Mathematicum}, volume = {040}, year = {2004}, pages = {281-286}, zbl = {1114.16040}, mrnumber = {2107023}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/107910} }
Ashraf, Mohammad; Ali, Asma; Ali, Shakir. $(\sigma,\tau)$-derivations on prime near rings. Archivum Mathematicum, Tome 040 (2004) pp. 281-286. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/107910/
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