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We characterise bijections on the space of hermitian matrices preserving the invertibility of differences of matrix pairs in both directions.
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Kobal, D. Bijections preserving invertibility of differences of matrices on H n . Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 24, 1651–1654 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-007-1021-x
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