Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2014
For a positive integer $n\geq 2$, let $M_{n}$ be the set of $n\times n$ complex matrices and $H_{n}$ the set of Hermitian matrices in $M_{n}$. We characterize injective linear maps ${\it\phi}:H_{m_{1}\cdots m_{l}}\rightarrow H_{n}$ satisfying