Let A be a self-adjoint standard operator algebra on a real or complex Hilbert space of dimension ≥2, and let k∈{1,2,3}. The k-skew commutator for A,B∈A is defined by *[A,B]1=AB−BA* and *[A,B]k=*[A,*[A,B]k−1]1. Assume that Φ:A→A is a map whose range contains all rank-one projections. In this paper, we prove that Φ is strong k-skew-commutativity preserving, that is, *[Φ(A),Φ(B)]k=*[A,B]k for all A,B∈A if and only if one of the following statements holds: (i) Φ is either the identity map or the negative identity map whenever k∈{1,3}; (ii) Φ is the identity map whenever k=2.
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