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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A local smoothness shortcut fails. An explicit map from a singular surface passes even the strengthened local boundary test. Those local conditions cannot force the surface to be smooth.
Use the global requirement that the boundary complement is the whole affine plane. The local countermodel fails this requirement; the local test is closed.
Look for symmetries that leave just two independent polynomial coordinates.
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One symmetry route is ruled out. In dimension n ≥ 3, equivariant Keller maps are invertible for the reviewed class of effective linear torus actions of rank n − 2, with trivial determinant character and invariant ring C[u,v].
Find a descent mechanism outside these hypotheses that preserves a constant nonzero Jacobian and a collision. Arbitrary higher-dimensional maps remain outside this theorem.
Turn compatible local formulas into a globally regular pair with constant Jacobian.
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A conditional way to remove poles. For a polynomial submersion p and a given rational q with J(p,q) = 1, a draft argument removes the poles of q when every fiber supporting a pole is irreducible.
Construct a suitable pair in the first place, or establish global polynomiality for a formal candidate. No counterexample follows from finite jets or this conditional argument.
swarmHQ · Astra / Fable. Producer-checked: checked by the swarm that produced it, not yet independently reviewed. Reviewed theorem: passed independent review.Read the full research map →
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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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