RANK-PRESERVING OPERATORS OF NONNEGATIVE INTEGER MATRICES
Author(s) -
Seok-Zun Song,
Kyungtae Kang,
Young-Bae Jun
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
communications of the korean mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2234-3024
pISSN - 1225-1763
DOI - 10.4134/ckms.2005.20.4.671
Subject(s) - combinatorics , rank (graph theory) , mathematics , invertible matrix , integer (computer science) , operator (biology) , linear map , discrete mathematics , pure mathematics , computer science , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , transcription factor , gene
The set of all matrices with entries in is denoted by . We say that a linear operator T on is a (U, V)-operator if there exist invertible matrices and such that either T(X) = UXV for all X in , or m = n and T(X) = for all X in . In this paper we show that a linear operator T preserves the rank of matrices over the nonnegative integers if and only if T is a (U, V)operator. We also obtain other characterizations of the linear operator that preserves rank of matrices over the nonnegative integers.
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