LINEAR ORTHOGONALITY PRESERVERS OF HILBERT BUNDLES

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Abstract: Due to the corresponding fact concerning Hilbert spaces, it is natural to ask if the linearity and the orthogonality structure of a Hilbert C∗-module determine its C∗-algebra-valued inner product. We verify this in the case when the C∗-algebra is commutative (or equivalently, we consider a Hilbert bundle over a locally compact Hausdorff space). More precisely, a mathbbC-linear map heta (not assumed to be bounded) between two Hilbert C∗-modules is said to be "orthogonality preserving" if left<heta(x),heta(y)ight>=0 whenever left<x,yight>=0. We prove that if heta is an orthogonality preserving map from a full Hilbert C0(Omega)-module E into another Hilbert C0(Omega)-module F that satisfies a weaker notion of C0(Omega)-linearity (known as "localness"), then heta is bounded and there exists phiinCb(Omega)+ such that left< heta(x), heta(y) ight> = phicdotleft<x,y ight>, quad forall x,y in E. On the other hand, if F is a full Hilbert C∗-module over another commutative C∗-algebra C0(Delta), we show that a "bi-orthogonality preserving" bijective map heta with some "local-type property" will be bounded and satisfy left< heta(x), heta(y) ight> = phicdotleft<x,y ight>circsigma, quad forall x,y in E where phiinCb(Omega)+ and sigma:DeltaightarrowOmega is a homeomorphism.











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