Adjacency preserving bijective maps on triangular matrices over any division ring

Let 𝕋 _n (D) be the set of n × n upper triangular matrices over a division ring D. We characterize the adjacency preserving bijective maps in both directions on 𝕋 _n (D) (n ≥ 3). As applications, we describe the ring semi-automorphisms and the Jordan automorphisms on upper triangular matrices over a simple Artinian ring.     

Rank-one nonincreasing mappings on triangular matrices and some related preserver problems

Let T_n (F) be the algebra of all n×n upper triangular matrices over an arbitrary field F. We first characterize those rank-one nonincreasing mappings ψ: T_n (F)→T_m (F)n?m such that ψ(I_n ) is of rank n. We next deduce from this result certain types of singular rank-one r-potent preservers and nonzero r-potent preservers on T_n (F). Characterizations of certain classes of homomorphisms and semi-homomorphisms on T_n (F) are also given.     

Square-zero derivations of matrix algebras over commutative rings

Let R be a commutative ring with identity, M _n (R) the R-algebra consisting of all n by n matrices over R. In this article, for n ≥ 5 we classify linear maps φ from M _n (R) into itself satisfying φ(x)x + xφ(x) = 0 whenever x ² = 0. We call such maps as square-zero derivations.     

The group of commutativity preserving maps on strictly upper triangular matrices

Let N = N _n (R) be the algebra of all n × n strictly upper triangular matrices over a unital commutative ring R. A map φ on N is called preserving commutativity in both directions if xy = yx ? φ(x)φ(y) = φ(y)φ(x). In this paper, we prove that each invertible linear map on N preserving commutativity in both directions is exactly a quasi-automorphism of N, and a quasi-automorphism of N can be decomposed into the product of several standard maps, which extains the main result of Y. Cao, Z. Chen and C. Huang (2002) from fields to rings.     

Continuous maps on triangular matrices that preserve commutativity

We investigate continuous injective maps defined on the space of upper triangular matrices over a field F that preserve commutativity of matrices in both directions. We show that every such map is a composition of either an inner automorphism and a locally polynomial map or the two latter and one more automorphism of upper triangular matrices.     

Real elements in T n (K)

We study the real elements in triangular matrix groups. We describe some classes of elements that are real in T _n (K) – the groups of upper triangular matrices over a commutative field K. From the obtained results there follow some applications for finding real elements in general linear groups – GL _n (K).     

Involutions in triangular groups

We describe involutions, i.e. elements of order 2, in the groups T _n (K) – of upper triangular matrices of dimension n (n?∈??), and T _∞(K) – of upper triangular infinite matrices, where K is a field of characteristic different from 2. Using the obtained result, we give a formula for the number of all involutions in T _n (K) in the case when K is a finite field.     

Linear operators preserving unitarily invariant norms of matrices

Let F _{m × n} be the set of all m × n matrices over the field F = C or R Denote by U_n (F) the group of all n × n unitary or orthogonal matrices according as F = C or F-R. A norm N() on F m ×n, is unitarily invariant if N(UAV) = N(A): for all A ∈ F _m×n U ∈ U _m (F). and V ∈ U_n (F). We characterize those linear operators T F _{m × n} → F _{m × n} which satisfy N (T(A)) = N(A)for all A ∈ F _{m × n}

for a given unitarily invariant norm N(). It is shown that the problem is equivalent to characterizing those operators which preserve certain subsets in F _{m × n} To develop the theory we prove some results concerning unitary operators on F _{m × n} which are of independent interest.     

Involutions for upper triangular matrix algebras

In this paper we describe completely the involutions of the first kind of the algebra UT_n(F) of n×n upper triangular matrices. Every such involution can be extended uniquely to an involution on the full matrix algebra. We describe the equivalence classes of involutions on the upper triangular matrices. There are two distinct classes for UT_n(F) when n is even and a single class in the odd case.Furthermore we consider the algebra UT₂(F) of the 2×2 upper triangular matrices over an infinite field F of characteristic different from 2. For every involution *, we describe the *-polynomial identities for this algebra. We exhibit bases of the corresponding ideals of identities with involution, and compute the Hilbert (or Poincaré) series and the codimension sequences of the respective relatively free algebras.Then we consider the *-polynomial identities for the algebra UT₃(F) over a field of characteristic zero. We describe a finite generating set of the ideal of *-identities for this algebra. These generators are quite a few, and their degrees are relatively large. It seems to us that the problem of describing the *-identities for the algebra UT_n(F) of the n×n upper triangular matrices may be much more complicated than in the case of ordinary polynomial identities.     

Nonlinear Lie derivations on upper triangular matrices

Let M _n (𝔸) and T _n (𝔸) be the algebra of all n?×?n matrices and the algebra of all n?×?n upper triangular matrices over a commutative unital algebra 𝔸, respectively. In this note we prove that every nonlinear Lie derivation from T _n (𝔸) into M _n (𝔸) is of the form A?→?AT???TA?+?A _??+?ξ(A)I _n , where T?∈?M _n (𝔸), ??:?𝔸?→?𝔸 is an additive derivation, ξ?:?T _n (𝔸)?→?𝔸 is a nonlinear map with ξ(AB???BA)?=?0 for all A,?B?∈?T _n (𝔸) and A _? is the image of A under???applied entrywise.     

Strong linear preservers of rank reverse permutability on triangular matrices

Let F be a field with ∣F∣ > 2 and T_n(F) be the set of all n × n upper triangular matrices, where n ? 2. Let k ? 2 be a given integer. A k-tuple of matrices A₁, …, A_k ∈ T_n(F) is called rank reverse permutable if rank(A₁ A₂ ? A_k) = rank(A_k A_k−1 ? A₁). We characterize the linear maps on T_n(F) that strongly preserve the set of rank reverse permutable matrix k-tuples.     

Geometry of rectangular block triangular matrices

Let D be any division ring, and let T（mi,ni,k） be the set of k × k （k ≥ 2） rectangular block triangular matrices over D. For A, B ∈ T（mi,ni,k）, if rank（A - B） = 1, then A and B are said to be adjacent and denoted by A -B. A map T ： T（mi,ni,k） -〉 T（mi,ni,k） is said to be an adjacency preserving map in both directions if A - B if and only if φ（A） φ（B）. Let G be the transformation group of all adjacency preserving bijections in both directions on T（mi,ni,k）. When m1,nk ≥ 2, we characterize the algebraic structure of G, and obtain the fundamental theorem of rectangular block triangular matrices over D.     

A problem on conjugacy of matrices

Let F be an infinite field and n?12. Then the number of conjugacy classes of the upper triangular nilpotent matrices in M_n(F) under action by the subgroup of GL_n(F) consisting of all the upper triangular matrices is infinite.     

Eigenvalues of products of matrices

Let A and B be n?×?n matrices over an algebraically closed field F. The pair ( A,?B ) is said to be spectrally complete if, for every sequence c₁,…,c_n ∈F such that det (AB)=c₁ ,…,c_n , there exist matrices A′,B,′∈F,^n×n similar to A,?B, respectively, such that A′B′ has eigenvalues c₁,…,c_n . In this article, we describe the spectrally complete pairs. Assuming that A and B are nonsingular, the possible eigenvalues of A′B′ when A′ and B′ run over the sets of the matrices similar to A and B, respectively, were described in a previous article.     

On linear operators strongly preserving invariants of Boolean matrices

Let U _k be the general Boolean algebra and T a linear operator on M _m,n (U _k ). If for any A in M _m,n (U _k ) (M _n (U _k ), respectively), A is regular (invertible, respectively) if and only if T(A) is regular (invertible, respectively), then T is said to strongly preserve regular (invertible, respectively) matrices. In this paper, we will give complete characterizations of the linear operators that strongly preserve regular (invertible, respectively) matrices over U _k . Meanwhile, noting that a general Boolean algebra U _k is isomorphic to a finite direct product of binary Boolean algebras, we also give some characterizations of linear operators that strongly preserve regular (invertible, respectively) matrices over 169-7 _k from another point of view.     

Linear spaces and preservers of symmetric matrices of bounded rank-two

Let 𝔽 be a field of characteristic two. Let S _n (𝔽) denote the vector space of all n?×?n symmetric matrices over 𝔽. We characterize i. subspaces of S _n (𝔽) all whose elements have rank at most two where n???3,

ii. linear maps from S _m (𝔽) to S _n (𝔽) that sends matrices of rank at most two into matrices of rank at most two where m, n???3 and |𝔽|?≠?2.

     

Generating orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying second order differential equations from a trio of triangular matrices

The method developed in [A.J. Durán, F.A. Grünbaum, Orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying second order differential equations, Int. Math. Res. Not. 10 (2004) 461–484] led us to consider matrix polynomials that are orthogonal with respect to weight matrices W(t) of the form , , and (1−t)^α(1+t)^βT(t)T^*(t), with T satisfying T^′=(2Bt+A)T, T(0)=I, T^′=(A+B/t)T, T(1)=I, and T^′(t)=(−A/(1−t)+B/(1+t))T, T(0)=I, respectively. Here A and B are in general two non-commuting matrices. We are interested in sequences of orthogonal polynomials (P_n)_n which also satisfy a second order differential equation with differential coefficients that are matrix polynomials F₂, F₁ and F₀ (independent of n) of degrees not bigger than 2, 1 and 0 respectively. To proceed further and find situations where these second order differential equations hold, we only dealt with the case when one of the matrices A or B vanishes.The purpose of this paper is to show a method which allows us to deal with the case when A, B and F₀ are simultaneously triangularizable (but without making any commutativity assumption).     

Triangular stochastic matrices generated by infinitesimal elements

We show that each element in the semigroup S _n of all n × n non-singular upper (or lower) triangular stochastic matrices is generated by the infinitesimal elements of S _n, which form a cone consisting of all n × n upper (or lower) triangular intensity matrices.