On Weak Armendariz Rings

We introduce weak Armendariz rings which are a generalization of semicommutative rings and Armendariz rings, and investigate their properties. Moreover, we prove that a ring R is weak Armendariz if and only if for any n, the n-by-n upper triangular matrix ring T _n (R) is weak Armendariz. If R is semicommutative, then it is proven that the polynomial ring R[x] over R and the ring R[x]/(x ⁿ ), where (x ⁿ ) is the ideal generated by x ⁿ and n is a positive integer, are weak Armendariz.