Solving bilinear systems on a limited domain

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Given a diagonal matrix $A$ with all entries $A_{i,i}\in(0,1)$ and trace equal to one

$$ A\in \mathbb{R}^{k \times k} $$

and a second matrix

$$ B\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times k},\,\,\,\,\,\,n\geq k,\,\,\,\,\,\, B_{i,j}\in[0,1) $$

I am looking for any kind of theory studying the solutions of the system

$$ c = BAB^t ,\,\,\,c\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n} $$

for fixed $c$, where the known parameters are the matrix $A$, and the matrix $c$, while $B$ is unknown.

My hope is that something related to the geometric properties of the bilinear forms can help in some way, but also numerical approaches are welcome!

Thanks