Adjacency preservers on invertible hermitian matrices II.

Maps that preserve adjacency on the set of all invertible hermitian matrices over a finite field are characterized. It is shown that such maps form a group that is generated by the maps A ↦ P A P ⁎ , A ↦ A σ , and A ↦ A − 1 , where P is an invertible matrix, P ⁎ is its conjugate transpose, and σ is an automorphism of the underlying field. Bijectivity of maps is not an assumption but a conclusion. Moreover, adjacency is assumed to be preserved in one direction only. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]