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Transformations on Bounded Observables Preserving Measure of Compatibility

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In this paper we describe the structure of all bijective nonlinear maps on the space of all bounded self-adjoint operators acting on a complex separable Hilbert space of dimension at least 3 which preserve a measure of commutativity, namely, the norm of the commutator of operators.

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Correspondence to Lajos Molnár.

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The first author was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) K81166 NK81402, and by the TÁMOP 4.2.1./B-09/1/KONV-2010-0007 project implemented through the New Hungary Development Plan co-financed by the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.

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Molnár, L., Timmermann, W. Transformations on Bounded Observables Preserving Measure of Compatibility. Int J Theor Phys 50, 3857–3863 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-011-0771-5

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