Dieudonné theorem on linear preservers of the singular matrices
Let be an arbitrary field. Consider , the vector space![]()
of all matrices over . Moreover, let be the full linear group of nonsingular
matrices over .
Theorem 1.
For a linear automorphism![]()
the following conditions are equivalent
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:
(i),(ii)either , or .
The original proof [D] of the nontrivial implication![]()
(i) (ii) is based on the fundamental theorem of projective geometry
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.
References
- D J. Dieudonné, Sur une généralisation du groupe orthogonal

à quatre variables, Arch. Math. 1: 282–287 (1949).