Commuting noninvertible formal power series conjecture

Let pp be a prime, let d1d\geq 1, and write X=(x1,,xd)X=(x_1,\ldots,x_d). For a power series hZp[[X]]dh\in\mathbb{Z}_p[[X]]^d, let Λ(h)\Lambda(h) denote its zero set. Commuting noninvertible formal power series conjecture. If f,gZp[[X]]df,g\in\mathbb{Z}_p[[X]]^d are noninvertible power series without constant coefficient and commute under composition, namely

fg=gf,f\circ g=g\circ f,

then

Λ(f)=Λ(g).\Lambda(f)=\Lambda(g).

This extends the corresponding one-variable results and the proved two-variable case to arbitrary dimension. The authors state that the required control of Newton copolygons in more than two variables is currently unavailable, so the assertion remains open.

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Ramla Abdellatif, Mabud Ali Sarkar and Absos Ali Shaikh, “Unlikely intersection in higher-dimensional formal groups”, arXiv:2306.01759 (2026).

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