SKEW POLYNOMIAL RINGS OVER SEMIPRIME RINGS

Y. Hirano introduced the concept of a quasi-Armendariz ring which extends both Armendariz rings and semiprime rings. A ring R is called quasi-Armendariz if $a_iRb_j$ = 0 for each i, j whenever polynomials $f(x)\;=\;\sum_{i=0}^ma_ix^i$, $g(x)\;=\;\sum_{j=0}^mb_jx^j\;{\in}\;R[x]$ satisfy f(x)R[x]g(x) = 0. In this paper, we first extend the quasi-Armendariz property of semiprime rings to the skew polynomial rings, that is, we show that if R is a semiprime ring with an epimorphism $\sigma$, then f(x)R[x; $\sigma$]g(x) = 0 implies $a_iR{\sigma}^{i+k}(b_j)=0$ for any integer k $\geq$ 0 and i, j, where $f(x)\;=\;\sum_{i=0}^ma_ix^i$, $g(x)\;=\;\sum_{j=0}^mb_jx^j\;{\in}\;R[x,\;{\sigma}]$. Moreover, we extend this property to the skew monoid rings, the Ore extensions of several types, and skew power series ring, etc. Next we define $\sigma$-skew quasi-Armendariz rings for an endomorphism $\sigma$ of a ring R. Then we study several extensions of $\sigma$-skew quasi-Armendariz rings which extend known results for quasi-Armendariz rings and $\sigma$-skew Armendariz rings.