Linear preservers of minimal rank Original Research Article

It is proved that a linear transformation on the vector space of upper triangular matrices that maps the set of matrices of minimal rank 1 into itself, and either has the analogous property with respect to matrices of full minimal rank, or is bijective, is a triangular equivalence, or a flip about the south-west north-east diagonal followed by a triangular equivalence. The result can be regarded as an analogue of Marcus–Moyls theorem in the context of triangular matrices.