Abstract:
Let
\Re 
be a unital prime *-algebra of characteristic 2 containing a nontrivial symmetric idempotent. For
A,B \in \Re
, the new product and 2-new product are defined, respectively, by
A \cdot B\rm = AB + BA^*
and
(A \cdot B)_2 = (A \cdot (A \cdot B))
. Let
\phi :\Re \to \Re 
be a surjective map. It is shown that
\phi 
satisfies
(\phi (A) \cdot \phi (B))_2\rm = (A \cdot B)_2
for all
A,B \in \Re 
if and only if there exists
\alpha \in C_S
with
\alpha ^3 = I
such that
\phi (A) = \alpha A
for all
A \in \Re 
, where
C_S
is the symmetric extend centroid of
\Re 
. As an application, such maps on prime
C^*
algebras and factor von Neumann algebras are characterized.