MULTIPLICATIVE GROUP AUTOMORPHISMS OF INVERTIBLE UPPER TRIANGULAR MATRICES OVER FIELDS

Suppose F is a field of characteristic not 2 and F* its multiplicative group. Let T*n(F) be the multiplicative group of invertible upper triangular n x n matrices over F and STn(F) its subgroup {(aij) E T*n(F)aii = 1, i}. This paper proves that f: T*n(F) → T*n(F) is a group automorphism if and only if there exist a matrix Q in T*n(F) and a field automorphism rs of F such that either where A = ((aij)), A-T is the transpose inverse of A, J = Ei n+1-i, and : i= 1T*n(F) → F* is a homomorphism which satisfies {(xIn)(x)x F*} = F* and {x F*(xIn)(x) = 1} = {1}. Simultaneously, they also determine the automorphisms of STn(F).