Distributive semiprime rings

It is proved that a right distributive semiprime PI ringA is a left distributive ring and for each elementx ∈A there is a positive integern such thatx ⁿ A=Ax ⁿ . We describe both right distributive right Noetherian rings algebraic over the center of the ring and right distributive left Noetherian PI rings. We also characterize rings all of whose Pierce stalks are right chain right Artin rings. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 736–761, November, 1995.