Chamberland's injectivity conjecture for mappings with bounded inverse spectral radius

Let n2n\geqslant 2 and let f:RnRnf:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^n be continuously differentiable. Assume that detf(x)0\det f'(x)\neq 0 for every xx and that

ρ(f(x)1)A\rho\bigl(f'(x)^{-1}\bigr)\leqslant A

for all xRnx\in\mathbb{R}^n, where A<+A<+\infty is constant and ρ(f(x)1)\rho\bigl(f'(x)^{-1}\bigr) denotes the spectral radius of f(x)1f'(x)^{-1}.

Chamberland's conjecture. The mapping ff is injective.

This is weaker than Alexandrov's conjecture because it does not assert convexity of the image. The source states that it remains open, while related injectivity theorems hold under stronger conditions.

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Primary source

Victor Alexandrov, “Around Efimov's differential test for homeomorphism”, arXiv:2006.15322 (2020).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1999–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/9907157.

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