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Trace and determinant preserving maps of matrices

Rings and Algebras 2016-03-15 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Suppose a map ϕ\phi on the set of positive definite matrices satisfies det(A+B)=det(ϕ(A)+ϕ(B))\det(A+B)=\det(\phi(A)+\phi(B)). Then we have tr(AB1)=tr(ϕ(A)ϕ(B)1).{\rm tr}(AB^{-1}) = {\rm tr}(\phi(A){\phi(B)}^{-1}). Through this viewpoint, we show that ϕ\phi is of the form ϕ(A)=MAM\phi(A)= M^*AM or ϕ(A)=MAtM\phi(A)= M^*A^tM for some invertible matrix MM with det(MM)=1\det (M^*M)=1. We also characterize the map ϕ:SS\phi: \mathcal{S} \rightarrow \mathcal{S} preserving the determinant of convex combinations in S\mathcal{S} by using similar method. Here S\mathcal{S} can be the set of complex matrices, positive definite matrices, symmetric matrices, and upper triangular matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03869,
  title  = {Trace and determinant preserving maps of matrices},
  author = {Huajun Huang and Chih-Neng Liu and Patricia Szokol and Ming-Cheng Tsai and Jun Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03869},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages

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