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Generalized isometries of the special unitary group

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In this paper we determine the structure of all so-called generalized isometries of the special unitary group which are transformations that respect any member of a large collection of generalized distance measures.

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Correspondence to Lajos Molnár.

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The main part of this research was done during the second author’s visit to the Department of Mathematics at Niigata University. He is very grateful for the warm hospitality he received from the first author and his colleagues. The second author was supported by the “Lendület” Program (LP2012-46/2012) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) Reg. No. K115383.

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Hatori, O., Molnár, L. Generalized isometries of the special unitary group. Arch. Math. 106, 155–163 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-015-0856-0

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