Maps preserving numerical radius distance on C -algebras
Maps preserving numerical radius distance on C -algebras
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DOI:
10.4064/sm162-2-1
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发表时间:
2004
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0.8
通讯作者:
Zhaofang Bai;J. Hou;Zongben Xu
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作者:
Zhaofang Bai;J. Hou;Zongben Xu
We characterize surjective nonlinear maps between unital C*-algebras A andB that satisfy w( (A) (B)) = w(A B) for all A;B2A under a mild condition that (I) (0) belongs to the center ofB, where w(A) is the numerical radius of A and I is the unit ofA. 1. Introduction. In the middle forties of the twentieth century, L. K. Hua initiated the study of geometry of matrices. The fundamental problem of geometry of matrices is to characterize the group of motions by as few geometric invariants as possible (8). Hua discovered that, for some elds F, especially the real eld R and complex eld C, the \adjacency" invariant (T and S are adjacent if rank(T S) = 1) alone is sucien t to charac- terize the motions (up to automorphisms of the underlying eld) on spaces of matrices, symmetric matrices, skew-symmetric matrices and hermitian matrices, respectively. Motivated by the geometry of matrices, a similar fundamental question may be raised for the innite-dimension al case. Problem. Find as few as possible properties that may be possessed by operator spaces A and B or by elements in them and that are enough to determine the structure of the map :A!B if has these properties as invariants, i.e., if preserves these properties. Thus the problem is indeed to develop an analog of \geometry of ma- trices" for operators. ForB(H), where H is an innite-dimension al