Different approaches to construct linear codes using skew polynomials can be unified by using the nonassociative algebras built from skew-polynomial rings by Petit.

Our purpose in this paper is to characterize skew PBW extensions over several weak symmetric rings. As a consequence of our treatment, we extend results the literature concerning property symmetry for commutative rings and polynomial

For a ring R, endomorphism α of R and positive integer n we define a skew triangular matrix ring Tn(R,α). By using an ideal theory of a skew triangular matrix ring Tn(R,α) we can determine prime, primitive, maximal ideals and radicals of the ring R[x;α]/〈xn〉, for each positive integer n, where R[x;α] is the skew polynomial ring, and 〈xn〉 is the ideal generated by xn.

In this paper we prove the universal property of skew PBW extensions generalizing this way the well known universal property of skew polynomial rings. For this, we will show first a result about the existence of this class of non-commutative rings. Skew PBW extensions include as particular examples Weyl algebras, enveloping algebras of finite-dimensional Lie algebras (and its quantization), Art...