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Pure state transformations induced by linear operators
We generalise Wigner's theorem to its most general form possible for B(h) in
the sense of completely characterising those vector state transformations of
B(h) that appear as restrictions of duals of linear operators on B(h). We then
use this result to similarly characterise the pure state transformations of
general C*-algebras that appear as restrictions of duals of linear operators on
the underlying algebras. This result may be interpreted as a noncommutative
Banach-Stone theorem.Comment: 24 pages, amslatex, revised and debugged versio
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