Higher-order commutators with power central values on rings and algebras involving generalized derivations

Let {\mathfrak{R}} be a ring with center {Z(\mathfrak{R})}. In this paper, we study the higher-order commutators with power central values on rings and algebras involving generalized derivations. Motivated by [A. Alahmadi, S. Ali, A. N. Khan and M. Salahuddin Khan, A characterization of generalized derivations on prime rings, Comm. Algebra 44 2016, 8, 3201–3210], we characterize generalized derivations and related maps that satisfy certain differential identities on prime rings. Precisely, we prove that if a prime ring of characteristic different from two admitting generalized derivation {\mathfrak{F}} such that {([\mathfrak{F}(s^{m})s^{n}+s^{n}\mathfrak{F}(s^{m}),s^{r}]_{k})^{l}\in Z(% \mathfrak{R})} for every {s\in\mathfrak{R}}, then either {\mathfrak{F}(s)=ps} for every {s\in\mathfrak{R}} or {\mathfrak{R}} satisfies {s_{4}} and {\mathfrak{F}(s)=sp} for every {s\in\mathfrak{R}} and {p\in\mathfrak{U}}, the Utumi quotient ring of {\mathfrak{R}}. As an application, we prove that any spectrally generalized derivation on a semisimple Banach algebra satisfying the above mentioned differential identity must be a left multiplication map.