Angle preserving mappings

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Abstract: In this paper, we give some characterizations of orthogonality preserving mappings between inner product spaces. Furthermore, we study the linear mappings that preserve some angles. One of our main results states that if mathcalX,mathcalY are real inner product spaces and hetain(0,pi), then an injective nonzero linear mapping T:mathcalXlongrightarrowmathcalY is a similarity whenever (i) xundersethetaangley,Leftrightarrow,TxundersethetaangleTy for all x,yinmathcalX; (ii) for all x,yinmathcalX, |x|=|y| and xundersethetaangley ensure that |Tx|=|Ty|. We also investigate orthogonality preserving mappings in the setting of inner product Cโˆ—-modules. Another result shows that if mathbbK(mathscrH)subseteqmathscrAsubseteqmathbbB(mathscrH) is a Cโˆ—-algebra and T,:mathscrElongrightarrowmathscrF is an mathscrA-linear mapping between inner product mathscrA-modules, then T is orthogonality preserving if and only if |x|leq|y|,Rightarrow,|Tx|leq|Ty| for all x,yinmathscrE.


This paper deals with orthogonality preserving mappings between inner product spaces and inner product \(C^*\)-modules. Given two real inner product spaces \(X\) and \(Y\), a mapping \(T: X \rightarrow Y\) is orthogonality preserving if for all \(x, y \in X\), \(x \perp y\) implies \(Tx \perp Ty\). Theorem 3.5 lists the following six conditions that are equivalent to the orthogonality preserving condition for a nontrivial linear mapping \(T\): {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[(1)] \(T\) is a similarity (i.e., there exists \(\gamma >0\) such that \(\|Tx\|=\gamma \|x\|\) for every \(x \in X\)); \item[(2)] strong orthogonality (\(x \perp y \,\, \Leftrightarrow Tx \perp Ty\)); \item[(3)] \(\|x\|=\|y\| \Rightarrow \|Tx\|= \|Ty\|\); \item[(4)] \(\|x\|= \|y\| \Leftrightarrow \|Tx\|= \|Ty\|\); \item[(5)] \(\|x\|\leq \|y\| \Rightarrow \|Tx\|\leq \|Ty\|\); \item[(6)] \(T\) is injective and \(\frac{\langle Tx, Ty\rangle }{\|Tx\| \|Ty\|} = \frac{\langle x, y\rangle }{\|x\| \|y\|}\). \end{itemize}} The authors also show, for a given \(\theta \in (0, \pi)\) and \(T\) linear and injective, that \(T\) is a similarity provided that \(T\) preserves angles strongly (i.e., \(x \angle_{\theta} y \Leftrightarrow Tx \angle_{\theta} Ty \), where \(\theta \in [0, \pi]\) and \(x \angle_{\theta} y= \cos^{-1} \frac{\langle x, y\rangle}{\|x\| \|y\|}\)) and satisfies the condition if \(\|x\|=\|y\|\) with \(x\angle_{\theta} y\), then \(\|Tx\|=\|Ty\|\) for all \(x, y \in X\). The last section is devoted to orthogonality preserving maps on inner product \(C^*\)-modules. Let \(\mathcal{A}\) denote a \(C^*\)-algebra, let \(\mathcal{E}\) and \(\mathcal{F}\) be inner product \(\mathcal{A}\)-modules. It is shown that each one of the following conditions: (i) \(|x|\leq |y| \Rightarrow |Tx|\leq |Ty|\), or (ii) \(|x|= |y| \Rightarrow |Tx|= |Ty|\), implies that \(T\) preserves orthogonality. The last result gives a characterization for orthogonality preserving in this setting: Let \(\mathcal{E}\) and \(\mathcal{F}\) be inner product \(\mathcal{A}\)-modules with \(\mathcal{A}\) a subalgebra of \(\mathbb{B}(\mathcal{H})\) (\(\mathcal{H}\) is a complex Hilbert space) containing the compact operators. Suppose that \(T: \mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{F}\) is a nonzero \(\mathcal{A}\)-linear mapping. Then \(T\) is orthogonality preserving if and only if \(|x|\leq |y| \Rightarrow |Tx|\leq |Ty|\) for all \(x,y \in \mathcal{E}\).











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