Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics · 2006 · 89 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsTopologyLinear AlgebraLinear TransformationsOperator TheoryOperator SpacesOrthogonal TransformationsSymmetry TransformationsTransformations
We show that every orthogonality-preserving linear map between normed spaces is a scalar multiple of an isometry. Using this result, we generalize Uhlhorn's version of Wigner's theorem on symmetry transformations to a wide class of Banach spaces.