Ambient spaces for cones generated by matricial inner products (Q2565416)

This paper provides a short expository survey (without proofs) of the characterizations and properties of four ambient spaces for cones generated by matricial inner products on the space \({\mathcal M}_n\) of complex \(n\times n\) matrices. Results about the spaces of Hermitian-preserving transformations, real-preserving transformations, selfadjoint transformations, and the space of all transformations \(T\) such that \(\langle T(A),A\rangle\) is Hermitian for all matrices \(A\in {\mathcal M}_n\) are examined.