The vanishing conjecture for differential operators with constant coefficients

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Let z=(z1,,zn)z=(z_1,, z_n) be nn commuting variables, let C[z]\mathbb C[z] be the polynomial algebra, and write ∂=(∂1,…,∂n)\partial=(\partial_1,\dots,\partial_n) with ∂i=∂/∂zi\partial_i=\partial/\partial z_i. Let P(z)∈C[z]P(z)\in\mathbb C[z] and let Λ=Λ(∂)\Lambda=\Lambda(\partial) for some Λ(ξ)∈C[ξ]\Lambda(\xi)\in\mathbb C[\xi]. Vanishing conjecture. If

Λm(Pm)=0\Lambda^m(P^m)=0

for every m≥1m\geq 1, then

Λm(Pm+1)=0\Lambda^m(P^{m+1})=0

for all sufficiently large mm. This conjecture concerns the eventual vanishing of iterated constant-coefficient differential operators and is related to the Jacobian conjecture. The paper proves four cases, but the general statement remains unresolved in the supplied text.

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Arno van den Essen, Roel Willems and Wenhua Zhao, “Some Results on the Vanishing Conjecture of Differential Operators with Constant Coefficients”, arXiv:0903.1478 (2011).

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