Graduate Is the 2-qubit singlet state invariant under bilateral projections?

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The 2-qubit singlet state ##\ket{\Psi^-} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\ket{01}-\ket{10})## is invariant under bilateral rotations(https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9511027), that is any operator of the form ##U \otimes U ## for ##U## being unitary. However, I'm wondering if the state is invariant also for a more general transformation ##A \otimes A ##. In general that transformation will lead to ##(A \otimes A )\ket{\Psi^-} = \det(A)\ket{\Psi^-}##. Given this, would it be OK to say that ##\ket{\Psi^-}## is invariant for any ##A##, or do we have to worry about the cases when ##A## is not invertible? If ##A## is singular, say ##A = \ket{0}\bra{0}##, then in this case ##\det(A)=0## and the application of ##A \otimes A ## will result in null vector, which seems different enough from the original to still call the case "invariant".
 
Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?

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