Maps preserving matrices of local reduced minimum modulus zero at a fixed vector.

Let n be an integer greater than 1, and M n (C) be the algebra of all n × n -complex matrices. Let x 0 ∈ C n be a nonzero vector, and Φ be a linear map on M n (C) such that Φ (I) is invertible. For any matrix T ∈ M n (C) , let γ (T , x 0) denote the local reduced minimum modulus of T at x 0. In this paper, we show that Φ satisfies γ (T , x 0) = 0 ⇔ γ (Φ (T) , x 0) = 0 , (T ∈ M n (C)) , if and only if there are two invertible matrices A , B ∈ M n (C) such that A x 0 = A ⁎ x 0 = x 0 and Φ (T) = B T A for all T ∈ M n (C). When n = 2 , we show that the invertibility hypothesis of Φ (I) is redundant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]