Tan's epsilon-determinant and ranks of matrices over semirings (Q1727650)

Summary: We use the \(\varepsilon\)-determinant introduced by \textit{Ya-Jia Tan} [Linear Multilinear Algebra 62, No. 4, 498--517 (2014; Zbl 1298.15014)] to define a family of ranks of matrices over certain semirings. We show that these ranks generalize some known rank functions over semirings such as the determinantal rank. We also show that this family of ranks satisfies the rank-sum and Sylvester inequalities. We classify all bijective linear maps which preserve these ranks.