Let A be a unital algebra with nontrivial idempotents. In this article, it is shown that under certain conditions if a map (not necessarily linear): A A satisfies (pₙ (a₁, a₂, , aₙ) ) = pₙ ( (a₁), a₂, , aₙ) for all a₁, a₂, , aₙ A with a₁ a₂ aₙ = 0, then (a + b) - (a) - (b) Z (A) for all a, b A. Moreover, is of the form (a) = a + (a) for all a A, where Z (A) and: A Z (A) is an almost additive map such that (pₙ (a₁, a₂, , aₙ) ) = 0 for all a₁, a₂, , aₙ A with a₁ a₂ aₙ = 0. Moreover, this result can also be applied to triangular algebras, von Neumann algebras without central summands of type I₁ and so on.
Gao et al. (Wed,) studied this question.