Linear preservers on strictly upper triangular matrix algebras (Q2873577)

The main result of this paper is the following: Let \({\mathbb F}\) be a field, \(|{\mathbb F}|\geq 3\), \(n\geq 3\) be an integer, \(NT_n({\mathbb F})\) be the algebra of strictly upper triangular \(n\times n\) matrices over \({\mathbb F}\), and \(\varphi: NT_n({\mathbb F}) \to NT_n({\mathbb F})\) be linear. Then \(\varphi \) preserves the adjugate function if and only if eitherNEWLINENEWLINE(a) \(\varphi (E_{1n}) =0\) and \(\mathrm{rk}(\varphi(A))\leq n-2\) for all \(A\in NT_n({\mathbb F})\), orNEWLINENEWLINE(b) there exists a permutation \(\sigma\) of the set \(\{1,2,\dots,n-1\}\) and nonzero numbers \(0\neq \lambda_1,\dots, \lambda_{n-1}\in {\mathbb F}\) such that \(\varphi(E_{1n})=\lambda_1\cdots \lambda_{n-1} E_{1n}\) and \([\varphi([a_{ij}])]_{k,k+1}=\lambda_k a_{\sigma(k),\sigma(k)+1}\) for all \(k=1,\dots, n-1\).NEWLINENEWLINEA number of corollaries about the structure of the maps preserving certain related matrix invariants over strictly upper triangular matrix algebras over a field is obtained.