Centralizers and Jordan triple derivations of semiprime rings

Abstract

Let R be a semiprime ring with extended centroid C and with maximal left ring of quotients . An additive map is called a Jordan triple derivation if for all . In 1957, Herstein proved that a Jordan triple derivation, which is also a Jordan derivation, of a noncommutative prime ring of characteristic 2, must be a derivation. In 1989, Brešar proved that any Jordan triple derivation of a 2-torsion free semiprime ring is a derivation. In the article, we give a complete characterization of Jordan triple derivations of arbitrary semiprime rings. To get such a characterization we first show that, in some sense, an additive map satisfying for all can be realized as a centralizer with only an exceptional case that and R is commutative.