• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.849-856
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• 1995

There are some papers on structure theorems for the spaces of matrices over certain semirings. Beasley, Gregory and Pullman [1] obtained characterizations of semiring rank 1 matrices over certain semirings of the nonnegative reals. Beasley and Pullman [2] also obtained the structure theorems of Boolean rank 1 spaces. Since the semiring rank of a matrix differs from the column rank of it in general, we consider a structure theorem for semiring rank in [1] in view of column rank.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.507-521
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• 2019

For any $m{\times}n$ nonbinary Boolean matrix A, its spanning column rank is the minimum number of the columns of A that spans its column space. We have a characterization of spanning column rank-1 nonbinary Boolean matrices. We investigate the linear operators that preserve the spanning column ranks of matrices over the nonbinary Boolean algebra. That is, for a linear operator T on $m{\times}n$ nonbinary Boolean matrices, it preserves all spanning column ranks if and only if there exist an invertible nonbinary Boolean matrix P of order m and a permutation matrix Q of order n such that T(A) = PAQ for all $m{\times}n$ nonbinary Boolean matrix A. We also obtain other characterizations of the (spanning) column rank preserver.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.645-657
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• 1994

If S is a semiring of nonnegative reals, which linear operators T on the space of $m \times n$ matrices over S preserve the column rank of each matrix\ulcorner Evidently if P and Q are invertible matrices whose inverses have entries in S, then $T : X \longrightarrow PXQ$ is a column rank preserving, linear operator. Beasley and Song obtained some characterizations of column rank preserving linear operators on the space of $m \times n$ matrices over $Z_+$, the semiring of nonnegative integers in [1] and over the binary Boolean algebra in [7] and [8]. In [4], Beasley, Gregory and Pullman obtained characterizations of semiring rank-1 matrices and semiring rank preserving operators over certain semirings of the nonnegative reals. We considers over certain semirings of the nonnegative reals. We consider some results in [4] in view of a certain column rank instead of semiring rank.