Drensky–Yu's Poisson-bracket degree conjecture

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Let kk be a field of characteristic 00, and let ff and gg be algebraically independent polynomials in k[x1,,xn]k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]. Assume that the homogeneous components of maximal degree of ff and gg are algebraically dependent, that ff and gg generate their integral closures C(f)C(f) and C(g)C(g) in k[x1,,xn]k[x_1,\ldots,x_n], respectively, and that neither degfdegg\deg f\mid\deg g nor deggdegf\deg g\mid\deg f. Drensky–Yu's conjecture. One has

deg[f,g]>min{deg(f),deg(g)}.\deg[f,g]>\min\{\deg(f),\deg(g)\}.

The conjecture gives a proposed lower bound for the degree of the Poisson bracket of two polynomials and is used in the paper to relate Poisson-bracket estimates to multidegrees of tame automorphisms. The source's abstract states that the authors give a counterexample to this conjecture, so it is refuted.

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Jiantao Li and Xiankun Du, “Multidegrees of Tame automorphisms with one prime number”, arXiv:1204.0930 (2012).

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