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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In a previous note on derivations [1] we determined the structure of a prime ring R which has a derivation d≠0 such that the values of d commute, that is, for which d(x) d(y) = d(y) d(x) for all x, y∈R. Perhaps even more natural might be the question: what elements in a prime ring commute with all the values of a non-zero derivation? We address ourselves to this question here, and settle it.