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We determine all bijective unitary similarity preserving linear maps on B(H), the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space H.
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Karder, M., Petek, T. & Taghavi, A. Unitary Similarity Preserving Linear Maps on B(H). Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 82, 51–60 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00020-014-2189-y
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