Rank preservers on spaces of symmetric matrices

Linear and Multilinear Algebra

Volumn 43, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 63-86

  Beasley, Leroy B ^a   Loewy, Raphael ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hermitian matrix; Inertia preserver; K subspace; Rank k preserver; Symmetric matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944447820     PISSN: 03081087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081089708818517     Document Type: Article

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