C*-submodule preserving module mappings on Hilbert C*-modules
Abstract
Let be a (non-unital, in general) C*-algebra with center of its multiplier algebra, and let be a full Hilbert -module. Then any bijective bounded module morphism , for which every norm-closed -submodule of is invariant, is of the form where is invertible. As an example of a merely injective bounded module operator with that preserver property serves where has a positive spectrum, but not bounded away from zero. The same assertions are true if the restriction on the C*-submodules to be norm-closed is dropped. From a different point of view, for two given strongly Morita equivalent C*-algebras and and a Hilbert - bimodule with faithful compact right action of , for any two two-sided norm-closed ideals , , any full compatible norm-closed Hilbert - subbimodule of is invariant for any left bounded -module operator and any right bounded -module operator. So these subsets of submodules of cannot rule out any bounded module operator as a non-preserver of that subset collection, however any single element of this subset collection is preserved by any bounded module operator on . For any - imprimitivity bimodule both the C*-valued inner product values are always preserved by bijective bounded module operators on iff for a unitary element .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.11206,
title = {C*-submodule preserving module mappings on Hilbert C*-modules},
author = {Michael Frank},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11206},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
8 pages, final version