Linear maps preserving idempotence on nest algebras (Q1780292)

The authors produce several theorems regarding the structure of linear preservers on nest algebras over Hilbert space. Specifically, they consider (nonsurjective, surjective, surjective bounded, and surjective weakly continuous) rank-one preservers. As a consequence, they also consider linear maps on atomic nests, and show that a bijective, weakly continuous linear map preserves idempotents if and only if it is Jordan, which in turn is equivalent to being an automorphism or an anti-automorphism.