Linear and multilinear functional identities in a prime ring with applications
This paper approaches some universal-algebraic properties of the two kinds of multilinear functions [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in a prime ring [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] are variable elements, [Formula: see text]. We shall demonstrate an algebraic procedure of deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for the two multilinear functional identities [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] to hold for all [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. Subsequently, we use these multilinear functional identities to describe the invariance properties of the products [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] with respect to the eight commonly-used types of generalized inverses of two MP-invertible elements [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in a prime ring [Formula: see text] with an identity element 1 and ∗-involution.