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Bijections preserving commutators and automorphisms of unitriangular group

Group Theory 2015-05-26 v1

Abstract

We complete characterization of bijections preserving commutators (PC-maps) in the group of unitriangular matrices UT(n,F)UT(n,F) over a field FF, where nn is a natural number or infinity. PC-maps were recently described up to almost identity PC-maps by M.Chen, D.Wang, and H.Zhai (2011) for finite nn and by R.Slowik (2013) for n=n=\infty. An almost identity map is a map, preserving elementary transvections. We show that an almost identity PC-map is a multiplication by a central element. In particular, if n=n=\infty, then an almost identity map is identity. Together with the result of R.Slowik this shows that any PC-map of UT(,F)UT(\infty, F) is an automorphism.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06355,
  title  = {Bijections preserving commutators and automorphisms of unitriangular group},
  author = {Waldemar Holubowski and Alexei Stepanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06355},
  year   = {2015}
}
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