TY - BOOK AU - Semrl,Peter TI - Optimal version of Hua's fundamental theorem of geometry of rectangular matrices T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9780821898451 (pbk. : acidfree paper) U1 - 510 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Providence : PB - American Mathematical Society, KW - Matrices KW - Algebraic Geometry N1 - "November 2014, volume 232, number 1089 (first of 6 numbers)"; Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74); 1. Introduction -- 2. Notation and basic definitions -- 3. Examples -- 4. Statement of main results -- 5. Proofs -- 5.1 Preliminary results -- 5.2 Splitting the proof of main results into subcases -- 5.3 Square case -- 5.4 Degenerate case -- 5.5 Non-square case -- 5.6 Proofs of corollaries-- Acknowledgments-- Bibliography N2 - Hua's fundamental theorem of geometry of matrices describes the general form of bijective maps on the space of all m??????n matrices over a division ring D which preserve adjacency in both directions. Motivated by several applications the author studies a long standing open problem of possible improvements. ER -