A COMMUTATIVITY CONDITION FOR RINGS

Abstract

In this paper, we use the structure theory to prove an analog to a well-known theorem of Herstein as follows: Let R be a ring with center C such that for all x,y ? R either [x,y]= 0 or x-x [x,y]? C for some non negative integer n= n(x,y) dependingon x and y. Then R is commutative.