Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, H-4010 Debrecen, P.O. Box 12, Hungary
Abstract:
In this paper we describe the general forms of all (nonlinear) continuous functionals on the sets of positive definite, positive semi-definite and Hermitian matrices which are multiplicative on the commuting elements. As a consequence, we obtain some new characterizations of the determinant on those classes of matrices.