Additivity of Jordan elementary maps on nest algebras (Q1779271)

Let \(\mathcal A\) be a standard subalgebra of a nest algebra on a Hilbert space of dimension greater than one and \(\mathcal B\) an arbitrary algebra. A Jordan elementary map of \(\mathcal A\times\mathcal B\) is a pair \((M, M^*)\), where \(M :\mathcal A\to\mathcal B\) and \(M^* :\mathcal B\to\mathcal A\) are two maps satisfying \[ \begin{cases} M(AM^*(B)A) = M(A)BM(A),\\ M^*(BM(A)B) = M^*(B)AM^*(B)\end{cases} \] for \(A\in\mathcal A\), \(B\in\mathcal B\). In this note, it is proved that for a special class of surjective Jordan elementary maps of \(\mathcal A\times\mathcal B\), every member in it is automatically additive. Moreover, the authors construct a counterexample which shows that this result is not necessarily true for all surjective Jordan elementary maps.