Linear operators that preserve term ranks of matrices over semirings (Q400781)

This paper studies linear preservers of matrix term ranks over commutative and antinegative semirings. It is shown that a linear operator \(T\) preserves the term rank of Boolean \(\{0,1\}\) matrices iff it preserves term ranks \(k\) and \(l\) for \(1 \leq k < l \leq m \leq n\). Likewise \(T\) preserves the term rank of anticommutative semiring matrices iff it preserves any distinct two term ranks or iff \(T\) strongly preserves at least one term rank.