NOTES ON GENERALIZED DERIVATIONS OF *-PRIME RINGS.

Let R be a *-prime ring with characteristic different from two and U ≠ 0 be a square closed *-Lie ideal of R. An additive mapping F : R → R is called an generalized derivation if there exits a derivation d : R → R such that F(xy) = F(x)y+xd(y). In the present paper, it is shown that U ⊆ Z if R is a *-prime ring which admits a generalized derivation satisfying several conditions that are associated with a derivation commuting with *. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]