On Certain Functional Equations on Standard Operator Algebras

Abstract

In this paper, functional equations related to derivations on semiprime rings and standard operator algebras are investigated. We prove the following result which is related to a classical result of Chernoff. Let X be a real or complex Banach space, let \({\mathcal {L}}(X)\) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators of X into itself and let \({\mathcal {A}}(X)\subset {\mathcal {L}}(X)\) be a standard operator algebra. Suppose there exist linear mappings \(D, G:{\mathcal {A}}(X)\rightarrow {\mathcal {L}}(X)\) satisfying the relations \(D(A^{2n+1})=D(A^{2n})A+A^{2n}G(A)\) and \(G(A^{2n+1})=G(A^{2n})A+A^{2n}D(A)\) for all \(A\in {\mathcal {A}}(X)\). Then there exists \(B\in {\mathcal {L}}(X)\) such that \(D(A)=G(A)=[A,B]\) for all \(A\in {\mathcal {A}}(X)\).