Yan's conjecture on isotropy groups of simple derivations

Let kk be a field and let Rn=k[x1,,xn]R_n=k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]. A kk-derivation dd of RnR_n is simple if RnR_n has no proper nonzero ideal II such that d(I)Id(I)\subseteq I. The isotropy group of dd is

Aut(Rn)d={φAut(Rn):φd=dφ}.\operatorname{Aut}(R_n)_d=\{\varphi\in\operatorname{Aut}(R_n):\varphi\circ d=d\circ\varphi\}.

A translation is an automorphism of RnR_n induced by xixi+aix_i\mapsto x_i+a_i for constants aika_i\in k.

Yan's conjecture. If dd is a simple derivation of RnR_n, then Aut(Rn)d\operatorname{Aut}(R_n)_d is conjugate in Aut(Rn)\operatorname{Aut}(R_n) to a subgroup of the group of translations.

This conjecture concerns the structure of isotropy groups for simple polynomial derivations. The source presents it as a conjecture proposed by D. Yan; the supplied material gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

Sumit Chandra Mishra, Dibyendu Mondal and Pankaj Shukla, “On the Isotropy Groups of Non-Invertible Simple Derivations”, arXiv:2507.15525 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2501.14415.

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