Surjections on grassmannians preserving pairs of elements with bounded distance

Let m and k be two fixed positive integers such that m > k >= 2. Let V be a left vector space over a division ring with dimension at least m + k + 1. Let G(m) (V) be the Grassmannian consisting of all m-dimensional subspaces of V. We characterize surjective mappings T from g, (V) onto itself s...

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Main Author: Lim, M.H.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2010
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/14980/
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Summary:Let m and k be two fixed positive integers such that m > k >= 2. Let V be a left vector space over a division ring with dimension at least m + k + 1. Let G(m) (V) be the Grassmannian consisting of all m-dimensional subspaces of V. We characterize surjective mappings T from g, (V) onto itself such that for any A, B in 9,,(V), the distance between A and B is not greater than k if and only if the distance between T(A) and T(B) is not greater than k. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.