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Let Ψ : ⨂ i = 1 d H n i → ⨂ i = 1 d H n i be a linear map on the Kronecker product of spaces of Hermitian matrices H n i of size n i ≥ 3. (If d=1, we identify ⨂ i = 1 d H n i with H n 1 .) We establish a condition under which Ψ adj ⨂ i = 1 d A i = adj Ψ ⨂ i = 1 d A i if and only if det Ψ ⨂ i = 1 d A i = det ⨂ i = 1 d A i for all ⨂ i = 1 d A i ∈ ⨂ i = 1 d H n i . Then for d ∈ { 1 , 2 } , we apply this fact to characterize maps Ψ : ⨂ i = 1 d H n i → ⨂ i = 1 d H n i such that Ψ adj ⨂ i = 1 d A i = adj Ψ ⨂ i = 1 d A i ⨂ i = 1 d with some mild conditions. [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]