Mappings preserving sum of triple products on $\ast $-algebras
Let $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ be two unital complex $\ast $-algebras such that $\mathcal{A}$ has a nontrivial projection. In this paper, we study the structure of bijective mappings $Φ:\mathcal{A}\rightarrow \mathcal{B}$ preserving sum of triple products $α_{1} ab^{*}c+α_{2} acb^{*}+α_{3} b^{*}ac +α_{4} cab^{*}+α_{5} b^{*}ca+α_{6} cb^{*}a,$ where the scalars $\{α_{k}\}_{k=1}^{6}$ are complex numbers satisfying some conditions. Applications of obtained results are given.