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Continuous Adjacency Preserving Maps on Real Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leiba Rodman ,
Peter Šemrl  and
Ahmed R. Sourour
Leiba Rodman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, U.S.A. e-mail: lxrodm@math.wm.edu
Peter Šemrl
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: peter.semrl@fmf.uni-lj.si
Ahmed R. Sourour
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4 e-mail: sourour@math.uvic.ca
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Abstract

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It is proved that every adjacency preserving continuous map on the vector space of real matrices of fixed size, is either a bijective affine tranformation of the form $A\,\mapsto \,PAQ\,+\,R$ , possibly followed by the transposition if the matrices are of square size, or its range is contained in a linear subspace consisting of matrices of rank at most one translated by some matrix $R$ . The result extends previously known theorems where the map was assumed to be also injective.

Keywords

15A0315A04adjacency of matricescontinuous preserversaffine transformations

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , 01 June 2005 , pp. 267 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2005

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