On operators preserving the numerical range (Q753109)

For a complex Hilbert space H, let L(H) denote the algebra of all bounded operators on H. For two nontrivial complex Hilbert spaces H and K, let \(F: L(H)\to L(K)\) be a surjective linear map. For a positive integer k and \(A\in L(H)\), let \(W_ k(A)\) denote the kth numerical range. If k is strictly less than one-half the dimension of H and \(W_ k(F(A))=W_ k(A)\) for all \(A\in L(H)\), then there is a unitary mapping \(U: H\to K\) such that F(A) is either \(UAU^*\) or \((UAU^*)^ t\), where the transposition is taken in any basis of K, fixed in advance.