Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a complex Hilbert space, $A$ a positive operator with closed range in $ℬ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ and ${ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ the sub-algebra of $ℬ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ of all $A$-self-adjoint operators. Assume $\phi :{ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ onto itself is a linear continuous map. This paper shows that if $\phi$ preserves $A$-unitary operators such that $\phi \left(I\right)=P$ then $\psi$ defined by $\psi \left(T\right)=P\phi \left(PT\right)$ is a homomorphism or an anti-homomorphism and $\psi \left(T^{♯}\right)=\psi {\left(T\right)}^{♯}$ for all $T\in {ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$, where $P=A^{+}A$ and $A^{+}$ is the Moore-Penrose inverse of $A$. A similar result is also true if $\phi$ preserves $A$-quasi-unitary operators in both directions such that there exists an...

Let X and Y be Banach spaces and ℬ(X) and ℬ(Y) the algebras of all bounded linear operators on X and Y, respectively. We say that A,B ∈ ℬ(X) quasi-commute if there exists a nonzero scalar ω such that AB = ωBA. We characterize bijective linear maps ϕ : ℬ(X) → ℬ(Y) preserving quasi-commutativity. In fact, such a characterization can be proved for much more general algebras. In the finite-dimensional case the same result can be obtained without the bijectivity assumption.

The set of all $m\times n$ Boolean matrices is denoted by ${𝕄}_{m,n}$. We call a matrix $A\in {𝕄}_{m,n}$ regular if there is a matrix $G\in {𝕄}_{n,m}$ such that $AGA=A$. In this paper, we study the problem of characterizing linear operators on ${𝕄}_{m,n}$ that strongly preserve regular matrices. Consequently, we obtain that if $min\{m,n\}\le 2$, then all operators on ${𝕄}_{m,n}$ strongly preserve regular matrices, and if $min\{m,n\}\ge 3$, then an operator $T$ on ${𝕄}_{m,n}$ strongly preserves regular matrices if and only if there are invertible matrices $U$ and $V$ such that $T\left(X\right)=UXV$ for all $X\in {𝕄}_{m,n}$, or $m=n$ and $T\left(X\right)=U{X}^{T}V$ for all $X\in {𝕄}_n$.

The Boolean rank of a nonzero $m\times n$ Boolean matrix $A$ is the minimum number $k$ such that there exist an $m\times k$ Boolean matrix $B$ and a $k\times n$ Boolean matrix $C$ such that $A=BC$. In the previous research L. B. Beasley and N. J. Pullman obtained that a linear operator preserves Boolean rank if and only if it preserves Boolean ranks $1$ and $2$. In this paper we extend this characterizations of linear operators that preserve the Boolean ranks of Boolean matrices. That is, we obtain that a linear operator preserves Boolean rank...

Let $A$ be a Boolean $\{0,1\}$ matrix. The isolation number of $A$ is the maximum number of ones in $A$ such that no two are in any row or any column (that is they are independent), and no two are in a $2\times 2$ submatrix of all ones. The isolation number of $A$ is a lower bound on the Boolean rank of $A$. A linear operator on the set of $m\times n$ Boolean matrices is a mapping which is additive and maps the zero matrix, $O$, to itself. A mapping strongly preserves a set, $S$, if it maps the set $S$ into the set $S$ and the complement of...

Let $A$, $B$ be $n\times m$ matrices. The concept of matrix majorization means the $j$th column of $A$ is majorized by the $j$th column of $B$ and this is done for all $j$ by a doubly stochastic matrix $D$. We define rc-majorization that extended matrix majorization to columns and rows of matrices. Also, the linear preservers of rc-majorization will be characterized.