ON RIGHT REGULARITY OF COMMUTATORS

We study the structure of right regular commutators, and call a ring R strongly C-regular if ab - ba is an element of (ab - ba)(2) R for any a, b is an element of R. We first prove that a noncommutative strongly C-regular domain is a division algebra generated by all commutators; and that a ring (possibly without identity) is strongly C-regular if and only if it is Abelian C-regular (from which we infer that strong C-regularity is left-right symmetric). It is proved that for a strongly C-regular ring R, (i) if R/W(R) is commutative, then R is commutative; and (ii) every prime factor ring of R is either a commutative domain or a noncommutative division ring, where W(R) is the Wedderburn radical of R.