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ORDER PRESERVING MAPS ON HERMITIAN MATRICES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2013

PETER ŠEMRL*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000, Slovenia
AHMED RAMZI SOUROUR
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2 email sourour@uvic.ca
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Abstract

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We prove that a continuous map $\phi $ defined on the set of all $n\times n$ Hermitian matrices preserving order in both directions is up to a translation a congruence transformation or a congruence transformation composed with the transposition.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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