Medial near-rings

In this paper we discuss (left) near-rings satisfying the identities:abcd=acbd,abc=bac, orabc=acb, called medial, left permutable, right permutable near-rings, respectively. The structure of these near-rings is investigated in terms of the additive and Lie commutators and the set of nilpotent elementsN (R). For right permutable and d.g. medial near-rings we obtain a Binomial Theorem, show thatN (R) is an ideal, and characterize the simple and subdirectly irreducible near-rings. Natural examples from analysis and geometry are produced via a general construction method.