Conjecture on bracket width of vector fields on non-rational smooth plane affine curves

Let CC be a non-rational smooth affine plane curve, and let Vec(C)\operatorname{Vec}(C) denote its Lie algebra of algebraic vector fields. The bracket width of a Lie algebra is the least integer nn such that every element is a sum of at most nn Lie brackets.

Bracket-width conjecture. The bracket width of Vec(C)\operatorname{Vec}(C) is exactly two.

This conjecture would remove the unique-place-at-infinity hypothesis from the preceding result, which proves the same conclusion for non-rational smooth plane affine curves with a unique place at infinity.

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Ievgen Makedonskyi and Andriy Regeta, “Bracket width of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a smooth affine curve”, arXiv:2210.14787 (2022).

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