On Generalizations of Commutativity

This note is concerned with generalizations of commutativity. We introduce identity-symmetric and right near-commutative, and study basic structures of rings with such ring properties. It is shown that if R is an identity-symmetric ring, then the set of all nilpotent elements forms a commutative subring of R. Moreover, identity-symmetric regular rings are proved to be commutative. The near-commutativity is shown to be not left-right symmetric, and we study some conditions under which the near-commutativity is left-right symmetric. We also examine the near-commutativity of skew-trivial extensions, which has a role in this note.