The invariance of elementary symmetric functions
Henryk Minc · Linear and Multilinear Algebra · 1976
The general problem considered is: what linear transformations on matrices preserve certain prescribed invariants or other properties of the matrices? Specifically, the forms of the following linear transformations are determined: the linear transformations that hold either the trace or the second elementary symmetric function of the eigenvalues of each matrix fixed, and in addition preserve either the determinant, or the permanent, or an elementary symmetric function of the squares of the singular values, or the property of being a rank 1 matrix or a unitary matrix.