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A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
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The Jacobian conjecture posits that a polynomial map in complex variables with a non-zero constant Jacobian is invertible with a polynomial inverse. Local invertibility is equivalent to the Jacobian being non-zero, following from the inverse function theorem.
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