%0 Journal Article %T $ sigma $-derivations on prime near-rings %A Ahmed A. M. Kamal %J Tamkang Journal of Mathematics %D 2001 %I Tamkang University %R 10.5556/j.tkjm.32.2001.89-93 %X The literatrue on near-rings contains a number of theorems asserting that certain conditions implying commutativity in rings imply multiplicative or additive commutativity in special classes of near-rings. H. E. Bell and G. Mason in [2] added to this body of results several commutativity theorems for near-rings admitting suitably-constrained derivations. In this paper we generalize some of their results to a subclass of prime near-rings admitting suitably-constrained $ sigma $-derivations, where $ sigma $ is an automorphibm of the prime near-ring. %U http://journals.math.tku.edu.tw/index.php/TKJM/article/view/349