LINEAR PRESERVERS OF BOOLEAN RANK BETWEEN DIFFERENT MATRIX SPACES

LeRoy B. Beasley, Kyung-Tae Kang, Seok-Zun Song
2015 Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society  
The Boolean rank of a nonzero m × n Boolean matrix A is the least integer k such that there are an m × k Boolean matrix B and a k × n Boolean matrix C with A = BC. We investigate the structure of linear transformations T : Mm,n → Mp,q which preserve Boolean rank. We also show that if a linear transformation preserves the set of Boolean rank 1 matrices and the set of Boolean rank k matrices for any k, 2 ≤ k ≤ min{m, n} (or if T strongly preserves the set of Boolean rank 1 matrices), then T preserves all Boolean ranks.
doi:10.4134/jkms.2015.52.3.625 fatcat:yj2lp27ltzhbnd35odadj3pzqm