The optimal version of Hua's fundamental theorem of geometry of rectangular matrices

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    • Šemrl, Peter

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The optimal version of Hua's fundamental theorem of geometry of rectangular matrices

Peter Šemrl

(Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, no. 1089)

American Mathematical Society, c2014

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"Volume 232, number 1089 (first of 6 numbers), November 2014"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74)

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Hua's fundamental theorem of geometry of matrices describes the general form of bijective maps on the space of all m×n matrices over a division ring D which preserve adjacency in both directions. Motivated by several applications the author studies a long standing open problem of possible improvements. There are three natural questions. Can we replace the assumption of preserving adjacency in both directions by the weaker assumption of preserving adjacency in one direction only and still get the same conclusion? Can we relax the bijectivity assumption? Can we obtain an analogous result for maps acting between the spaces of rectangular matrices of different sizes? A division ring is said to be EAS if it is not isomorphic to any proper subring. For matrices over EAS division rings the author solves all three problems simultaneously, thus obtaining the optimal version of Hua's theorem. In the case of general division rings he gets such an optimal result only for square matrices and gives examples showing that it cannot be extended to the non-square case.

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  • NCID
    BB17161650
  • ISBN
    • 9780821898451
  • LCCN
    2014024653
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Providence, R.I.
  • Pages/Volumes
    v, 74 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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