A RESULT CONCERNING DERIVATIONS IN NONCOMMUTATIVE BANACH ALGERAS

The purpose of this paper is to prove the following result: Let A be a noncommutative semisimple Banach algebra. Suppose that $D:A{\rightarrow}A$, $G:A{\rightarrow}A$ are linear derivations such that [G(x), x]D(x) = D(x)[G(x), x] = 0, [D(x), G(x)] = 0 hold for all $x{\in}A$. In this case either D = 0 or G = 0.