The Jacobian Conjecture fell in higher dimensions. Two variables remain open.
A public campaign to resolve the Plane Jacobian Conjecture, JC2.
F(x,y)=(x+y2,y)A polynomial map with constant nonzero Jacobian. The second coordinate remembers the height: subtract its square to undo the slide. JC2 says every such map has a polynomial inverse.
Study the boundary added when a polynomial map is completed to a finite map.
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Divisorial targets are projective; static conditions allow index three. On the divisorial eigenvaluation branch, the compact target Y and every finite iterate factor W_j are projective with rational singularities. Each boundary C_j is an ordinary cusp isomorphic to B, of arithmetic genus one, with C_j² = 1/(nN^j). A separate whole-plane projective surface with rational singularities, cuspidal boundary, and genuine canonical ideal has Cartier index n = 3, ruling out the static Gorenstein shortcut.
Derive an actual polynomial-map constraint over the singular ambient cusp to bound the Cartier index, eliminate exceptional curves of the source projection, or exclude omitted affine boundary components. The infinitely singular valuation branch remains open.
Test whether rational constant-Jacobian pairs, invariant foliations, or target pencils can produce a whole-plane counterexample.
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Pullback primitivity, Darboux zero laws, and invariant webs exclude donor repairs. Any polynomial Keller map preserving a rational pencil, algebraic foliation, or finite algebraic web is invertible. Without invariance, target-primitive pencils with at most two bad fibers, three double fibers, or coprime binomial form P^m/Q^n stay primitive under Keller pullback. A field-generating rational Darboux form has simple normal crossing zero support wherever it is regular. If every point of a complete target curve has an etale preimage on a fixed source curve, no rational postpair extends to a polynomial Keller map.
Construct a complete characteristic-zero polynomial pair, or connect the pullback-primitivity and Darboux-support obstructions to an arbitrary hypothetical finite normalization without a supplied donor pencil.
Decide whether the four-generator subring T = C[U, UV, UV², UV³ − V] inside C[U,V] admits a constant-Jacobian pair.
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Full F10 normalization carrier identified in four generators. For complete guarded compact F10 inputs, the two-chart affine surface Spec T is the full finite normalization over the target, with one smooth A¹ source complement of ramification index two. Any P, Q in T with J(P,Q) = 1 would be a JC₂ counterexample. Constant-direction pencil perturbations (p² + αH, U + βH) have no mate in T, and every Keller pair in T must carry both positive and negative weights. A separate closed test gives a nonsingular polynomial in T of geometric generic genus two with no rational constant-Jacobian mate, so scalar nonsingularity does not force rational fibers.
Use the full constant-Jacobian identity on T = C[U, UV, UV², UV³ − V] to exclude or construct a finite pair (P, Q). Vanishing two-form moments and extreme-weight rows alone do not suffice.
Look for a target-linear map, commutator lift, or Gaussian derivative domain that separates automorphisms from finite covers.
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One nonzero target-linear functional suffices for invertibility. For A = C[F₁, F₂] inside R = C[x, y] from any complex polynomial Keller map, Hom_A(R, A) ≠ 0 if and only if F is an automorphism, with no normalization, multiplicativity, or derivation condition on the functional. The same equivalence holds when the lifted holomorphic derivative domain is dense in Gaussian L² space, and when the first free-algebra commutator lift exists modulo I².
Construct a nonzero A-linear functional R → A or establish holomorphic Gaussian domain density from actual polynomial source coordinates, where local inverse-sheet retractions and real Sobolev cutoffs stop short.
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What was known before the campaign: why reversibility near every point does not obviously give a single global inverse, and how the difficulty concentrates at infinity.
One short identity says that a polynomial whose derivative is balanced against a second polynomial in a particular way can only be linear, and that rigidity is what closes a block in the strip reduction.
The Jacobian bracket reads off one equation per lattice point, and at a corner that equation has a single term. Following the consequences empties a whole chart of the strip family.
At partial degrees six and nine the leading coefficients are a square and a cube of the same polynomial, and one cube root makes both of them one. The symmetry that comes with it grades every remaining equation.
Three explicit unbounded families pass every one of Moh's printed conditions, so no degree bound can come from the numerical skeleton alone. Any uniform proof has to use a datum the skeleton does not carry.
The traces of powers of one polynomial over the fibres of the other satisfy an exact differential identity whose degree grows with the exponent while the geometric degree stays pinned. It looked like a ceiling. It is a shape constraint that the frontier never violates.
Moh's Appendix II sends a pair of degrees (n, m) to a smaller pair with a monomial Jacobian. The descended problems land where the campaign already holds certificates. An unbounded ray of them is now a theorem through its eighth member. A printed step in Moh's own proof turned out to be wrong.
An assumption about which branches at infinity are Galois conjugates ran through two integration cycles and was not a theorem. Replacing it with the actual orbit law cut the necessary configurations at n ≤ 200 from twenty-four thousand to ninety. At n ≤ 100 it reproduces Moh's 1983 list exactly.
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