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We investigate the change in the multiplicities of an eigenvalue of an Hermitian matrix whose graph is a general undirected graph, when an edge is removed from the graph. The same question when the graph is a tree has been investigated in prior work. Here, we give possible classifications of edges in a general graph in terms of the statuses of adjacent vertices. It turns out that there are four cases that do occur in a general graph but cannot occur in a tree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the solvability conditions and the explicit expressions of the Hermitian solutions to the system of matrix equations and the Hermitian nonnegative definite solutions to the system of matrix equations are, respectively, put forward, by making full use of the generalized inverse and the rank of matrices. As applications, some special cases of the above systems of matrix equations are considered. In addition, the maximal ranks and inertias of the Hermitian solutions are, respectively, presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We characterize all Jordan triple product homomorphisms, that is, mappingssatisfying from the set of all Hermitiancomplex matrices to the field of complex numbers. Further, we characterize all Jordan triple product homomorphisms from the field of complex or real numbers or the set of all nonnegative real numbers to the set of all Hermitiancomplex matrices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this note, we characterize linear maps between spaces of Hermitian matrices over a field with involution which preserve the rank of the identity matrix and the rank of tensor products of rank one Hermitian matrices. It is assumed that the fixed field with respect to the field with involution has at least four elements. We also present some applications of our main result to other preserver problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]