Adjamagbo's separable Jacobian conjecture

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Let kk be a field of characteristic p>0p>0, let X=(x1,,xn)X=(x_1,\dots,x_n), and let F=(F1,,Fn)ink[X]nF=(F_1,\dots,F_n)in k[X]^n. Write

k(F)=k(F1,,Fn)k(X)=k(x1,,xn).k(F)=k(F_1,\dots,F_n)\subseteq k(X)=k(x_1,\dots,x_n).

Adjamagbo's separable Jacobian conjecture. Assume that

detJac(F)k×andp[k(X):k(F)].\det \operatorname{Jac}(F)\in k^\times \qquad\text{and}\qquad p\nmid [k(X):k(F)].

Then FF is a polynomial automorphism of Akn\mathbb{A}_k^n.

This positive-characteristic refinement of the Jacobian conjecture was proposed by Adjamagbo and is intended to capture the separable case. The stated conjecture is refuted by the paper's explicit characteristic-22 example in dimension 33, whose field extension has degree 33 but whose polynomial map is noninjective; stabilization gives counterexamples in every dimension n3n\geq 3.

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Irit Huq-Kuruvilla, “An Explicit Characteristic-2 Counterexample to the Separable Jacobian Conjecture”, arXiv:2607.20968 (2026).

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