Jacobson’s lemma for the generalized Drazin inverse

0truemm0truemm We study properties of elements in a ring which admit the generalized Drazin inverse. It is shown that the element 1-ab is generalized Drazin invertible if and only if so is 1-ba and a formula for the generalized Drazin inverse of 1-ba in terms of the generalized Drazin inverse and the spectral idempotent of 1-ab is provided. Further, recent results relating to the Drazin index can be recovered from our theorems.