Linear maps preserving rank of tensor products of matrices

Baodong Zheng, Jinli Xu, Ajda Fošner
2014 Linear and multilinear algebra  
Let Mn be the algebra of all n × n complex matrices. We characterize linear maps φ : Mm 1 ···m l → Mm 1 ···m l satisfying rank (φ (A1 ⊗ · · · ⊗ A l )) = rank (A1 ⊗ · · · ⊗ A l ) for all A k ∈ Mm k , k = 1, . . . , l. 2010 Math. Subj. Class.: 15A03, 15A69, 15A86.
doi:10.1080/03081087.2013.869589 fatcat:zuvqmlwrizfe7a46fr4ofacxga