Invertibility preserving maps preserve idempotents.

A Survey of Invertibility and Spectrum Preserving Linear Maps

Invertibility Preserving Linear Maps of Banach Algebras

This talk discusses a conjecture of R. V. Kadison and myself. Our conjecture is that each one-to-one linear map of one unital C*-algebra onto another that preserves the identity is a Jordan isomorphism if it maps the invertible elements of the first C*-algebra onto the invertible elements of the other C*-algebra. Connections are shown between this conjecture and Cartan’s uniqueness theorem. 1. ...

Generalized Drazin invertibility of combinations of idempotents

The paper deals with the generalized Drazin invertibility of combinations of idempotents p, q in a Banach algebra. It proves the equivalence of the generalized Drazin invertibility of p−q and p+q, as well as the equivalence of the generalized Drazin invertibility of the commutator pq − qp and anticommutator pq + qp of p, q. It extends several results of J. Math. Anal. Appl. 359 (2009) 731–738, ...

a survey of invertibility and spectrum preserving linear maps

Invertibility-preserving Maps of C∗-algebras with Real Rank Zero

In 1996, Harris and Kadison posed the following problem: show that a linear bijection between C∗-algebras that preserves the identity and the set of invertible elements is a Jordan isomorphism. In this paper, we show that if A and B are semisimple Banach algebras andΦ : A→ B is a linear map onto B that preserves the spectrum of elements, thenΦ is a Jordan isomorphism if either A or B is a C∗-al...