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Linear Operators on Matrix Algebras that Preserve the Numerical Range, Numerical Radius or the States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
Every norm $\mathcal{V}$ on ${{\text{C}}^{\text{n}}}$ induces two norm numerical ranges on the algebra ${{M}_{n}}\,\text{of}\,\text{all}\,\text{n}\,\times \,\text{n}$ complex matrices, the spatial numerical range
where ${{\mathcal{V}}^{D}}$ is the norm dual to $\mathcal{V}$, and the algebra numerical range
where $S$ is the set of states on the normed algebra ${{M}_{n}}$ under the operator norm induced by $\mathcal{V}$. For a symmetric norm $\mathcal{V}$, we identify all linear maps on ${{M}_{n}}$ that preserve either one of the two norm numerical ranges or the set of states or vector states. We also identify the numerical radius isometries, i.e., linear maps that preserve the (one) numerical radius induced by either numerical range. In particular, it is shown that if $\mathcal{V}$ is not the ${{\ell }_{1}},{{\ell }_{2}},\,\text{or}\,{{\ell }_{\infty }}$ norms, then the linear maps that preserve either numerical range or either set of states are “inner”, i.e., of the form $A\mapsto {{Q}^{*}}AQ$, where $Q$ is a product of a diagonal unitary matrix and a permutation matrix and the numerical radius isometries are unimodular scalar multiples of such inner maps. For the ${{\ell }_{1}}$ and the ${{\ell }_{\infty }}$ norms, the results are quite different.
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