Restricted skew-morphisms on matrix algebras (Q898784)

Let \(n\geq 2\) be an integer and let \(M_n\) be the algebra of \(n\)-by-\(n\) matrices over a field \(\mathbb{F}\). A restricted skew-morphism is a map \(\Phi: M_n \rightarrow M_n\) with the following property: there exists a power function \(\kappa: M_n\rightarrow \{0, 1, 2, \ldots \}\) such that \(\Phi(AB) = \Phi(A) \Phi^{\kappa(A)}(B)\); for all \(A,B \in M_n\), where \(\Phi^0 =\mathrm{id}\), the identity mapping, and \(\Phi^k(x) =\Phi(\Phi^{k-1}(x))\). The authors study restricted skew-morphisms on the semigroup \(M_n\), \(n \geq 2\). Among the main results that they obtain are the following theorems. A linear map \(\Phi: M_n \rightarrow M_n\) is a restricted skew-morphism if and only if there exist a nonnegative integer \(s\), a nonzero scalar \(\lambda\), and matrices \(M, N\in M_n\) with \(N\) invertible and \(N^{1-s} = NM^s = \lambda\mathrm{Id}\), such that \(\Phi\) is of the form \(\Phi(A) = MAN\) for \(A \in M_n\). Let \(\Phi: M_n \rightarrow M_n\) be a surjective restricted skew-morphism. Then \(\mathrm{rk}\Phi(A) =\mathrm{rk}A\) for every \(A \in M_n\).