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The real Jacobian question in dimension n

RJₙ — is a real polynomial map with constant Jacobian injective?

Over the reals one can ask for less than a polynomial inverse: only that the map be one-to-one. A real Keller map is a Keller map over the field ℝ, which has characteristic zero. If JCₙ holds it has a polynomial inverse, and in particular it is injective. So the real question reduces to the Jacobian conjecture in the same dimensionn→n.

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Open: JC₂, RJ₂. Refuted with an explicit witness: JCₙ for n ≥ 3; RJₙ for n ≥ 3. Refuted by implication, no witness exhibited: none. Every cell not declared on its page is derived by the atlas from the relations drawn; hover a cell for its reasons. proved refuted, witnessed refuted by implication open claimed (V4) · a ring marks V0 · arrows point from the stronger statement to what it implies

Dimension 3 and up are false. Alpöge's map has integer coefficients, and its three colliding points are rational. Restricted to ℝ³ it is a non-injective real map with constant Jacobian −2-2, and padding carries that to every n≥3n\ge3.

Dimension 2 is open. It follows from JC₂. It could also hold even if JC₂ fails, since a complex counterexample need not collide at real points. Migus shows that the generic degree of a real Keller map of ℝ² with non-dense image would have to be even and at least 6, and that no such map exists if JC₂ holds. In dimension 3 and up, those degrees are exactly the even numbers from 4.[1]

The constant is essential. If “constant” is weakened to “nowhere zero”, the statement is the strong real Jacobian conjecture, which Pinchuk refuted in the plane in 1994.

  1. ↑ P. Migus, Generic degrees of real polynomial Keller maps with non-dense image, arXiv:2607.21572 (v3 27 August 2026).

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