On Hua's fundamental theorem of the geometry of rectangular matrices
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On Hua's fundamental theorem of the geometry of rectangular matrices
zbMATH Open document ID: 1003.15013
author: Peter Šemrl
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2002-07-04T00:00:00Z
review text: Two \(m\times n\)-matrices \(A\) and \(B\) over a field \(F\) are called adjacent if, and only if, \(\text{rank} A-B=1\). A well-known result due to \textit{L. K. Hua} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 61, 229-255 (1947; Zbl 0037.39205)] says that a bijection \(\varphi:F^{m\times n}\to F^{m\times n}\) (\(m,n\geq 2\)) which preserves adjacency in both directions is of the form \(X\mapsto P\cdot f(X)\cdot Q+R\) or, but only when \(m=n\), of the form \(X\mapsto P\cdot f(X)^T\cdot Q+R\) , where \(f\) is an automorphism of \(F\), \(P\in\text{GL}(m,F)\), \(Q\in\text{GL}(n,F)\), and \(R\in F^{m\times n}\). The author aims at weakening the original assumptions of Hua. On the one hand, it is shown that a mapping \(\varphi:F^{m\times n}\to F^{m\times n}\) that preserves adjacency in both directions is injective. On the other hand, it is shown that for real matrices the assumptions in Hua's theorem can be weakened considerably: it is sufficient to assume that \(\varphi:F^{m\times n}\to F^{m\times n}\) is just a mapping with the following property: \(A\) adjacent \(B\) \(\Leftrightarrow\) \(\varphi(A)\) adjacent \(\varphi(B)\). Over the complex numbers a similar result is not possible, since there are non-surjective monomorphisms of the field of complex numbers.
reviewed by: Hans Havlicek
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15B33
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51A25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C12
zbMATH DE Number: 1763597
zbMATH Keywords: real rectangular matrix
zbMATH Keywords: adjacency preserving mapping
zbMATH Keywords: mild hypothesis characterization
zbMATH Keywords: geometry of rectangular matrices
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: jabr.2001.9052
OpenAlex ID: W2035810787
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DOI: 10.1006/JABR.2001.9052
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