Equality of the bifurcation and asymptotic sets at infinity

Let f ⁣:RnRf\colon \mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R} be a real polynomial. Denote by B(f)\mathcal{B}_{\infty}(f) the bifurcation set at infinity and by S(f)\mathcal{S}_{\infty}(f) the set of asymptotic critical values at infinity. The equality conjecture. One has

B(f)=S(f).\mathcal{B}_{\infty}(f)=\mathcal{S}_{\infty}(f).

The conjecture proposes that the bifurcation values at infinity are exactly the asymptotic critical values at infinity. The preceding discussion gives the inclusion S(f)K(f)\mathcal{S}_{\infty}(f)\subset K_{\infty}(f) and exhibits examples where this inclusion is strict, while a related conjecture from the literature has a real counterexample. The status of the equality itself is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Luis Renato G. Dias and Mihai Tibar, “Detecting bifurcation values at infinity of real polynomials”, arXiv:1403.6624 (2014).

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