Adjacency Preserving Bijection Maps of Hermitian Matrices over any Division Ring with an Involution

Let D be any division ring with an involution,Hn （D） be the space of all n × n hermitian matrices over D. Two hermitian matrices A and B are said to be adjacent if rank（A - B） = 1. It is proved that if φ is a bijective map from Hn（D）（n ≥ 2） to itself such that φ preserves the adjacency, then φ^-1 also preserves the adjacency. Moreover, if Hn（D） ≠J3（F2）, then φ preserves the arithmetic distance. Thus, an open problem posed by Wan Zhe-Xian is answered for geometry of symmetric and hermitian matrices.

Diameter Preserving Surjection on Alternate Matrices

Let F be a field with ｜F｜ ≥ 3, Km be the set of all m × m （m ≥ 4） alternate matrices over F. The arithmetic distance of A, B ∈ Km is d（A, B） ：= rank（A - B）. If d（A, B） = 2, then A and B are said to be adjacent. The diameter of Km is max{d（A, B） ： A, B ∈ km}. Assume that φ ： Km→Km is a map. We prove the following are equivalent： （a） φ is a diameter preserving surjection in both directions, （b） φ is both an adjacency preserving surjection and a diameter preserving map, （c） φ is a bijective map which preserves the arithmetic distance.

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.