Zhao's Image Conjecture for commuting differential operators

Let C[z]\mathbb{C}[z] be a polynomial ring and let D[z]\mathbb{D}[z] be the set of differential operators Φ\Phi of C[z]\mathbb{C}[z] of the form

Φ=h(z)+i=1ncizi,\Phi=h(z)+\sum_{i=1}^n c_i\frac{\partial}{\partial z_i},

for some h(z)C[z]h(z)\in\mathbb{C}[z] and ciCc_i\in\mathbb{C}. For a subset C={ΦiiI}\mathcal C=\{\Phi_i\mid i\in I\} indexed by IZI\subset\mathbb Z, define

ImC=iIΦiC[z].\operatorname{Im}\mathcal C=\sum_{i\in I}\Phi_i\mathbb{C}[z].

Call C\mathcal C commuting when its elements commute pairwise. Zhao's Image Conjecture. For every commuting subset CD[z]\mathcal C\subset\mathbb D[z], ImC\operatorname{Im}\mathcal C is a Mathieu–Zhao subspace of C[z]\mathbb C[z]. The source says that the Jacobian Conjecture is a special case of this conjecture and gives no resolution evidence for the general statement.

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Primary source

Matthew Speck, “Mathieu-Zhao Subspaces of Vertex Algebras”, arXiv:2209.10004 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1506.05192.

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