
Let \(M_n\) (resp., \(H_n)\) be the algebra of \(n\)-by-\(n\) complex matrices (resp., Hermitian matrices). The numerical range \(W(A)\) and numerical radius \(w(A)\) of \(A\) in \(M_n\) are given by \[ W(A)=\{x^*Ax: x\in\mathbb{C}^n,x^*x=1\}\quad\text{and} \quad w(A)=\max\{|\lambda|: \lambda\in W(A)\}, \] respectively. The main results of this paper are characterizations of mappings on \(M_n\) and \(H_n\) which preserve the numerical ranges or numerical radii of Schur products of matrices. More specifically, it is shown that, for \(V=M\) or \(H_n\), (1) \(\varphi:V \to V\) is such that \(w(A\circ B)=w(\varphi(A)\circ\varphi(B))\) for all \(A\) and \(B\) in \(V\) if and only if it is given by \(\varphi(X)=R\circ(P^tD_X X^\tau E_XP)\) for \(x\in V\), where \(R\) in \(V\) is such that \(R\circ R= [\overline x_ix_j]\) with \(|x_1|=\cdots=|x_n|=1\), \(P\) is a permutation matrix, \(D_X\) and \(E_X\) are diagonal unitary matrices in \(V\) which depend on \(X\) and satisfy \(D_XE_XX=XD_X E_X\), and \(X^\tau\) denotes \(X,\overline X,X^t\) or \(X^*\), and (2) \(\varphi: M_n\to M_n\) is such that \(W(A\circ B)=W(\varphi(A)\circ\varphi(B))\) for all \(A\) and \(B\) in \(V\) if and only if \(\varphi(X)=R\circ(P^tD_X^*XD_XP)\) or \(\varphi(X) =R\circ(P^tD_X^*X^tD_XP)\) for \(X\) in \(V\), where \(R,P\) and \(D_X\) are as in (1).
Numerical radius, Numerical Analysis, Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors, Algebra and Number Theory, Linear transformations, semilinear transformations, Schur product, numerical range, Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Numerical range, numerical radius
Numerical radius, Numerical Analysis, Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors, Algebra and Number Theory, Linear transformations, semilinear transformations, Schur product, numerical range, Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Numerical range, numerical radius
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