The vanishing conjecture for homogeneous Hessian-nilpotent quartics

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Let z=(z1,z2,,zn)z=(z_1,z_2,\dots,z_n), let Di=ziD_i=\frac{\partial}{\partial z_i}, and let Δn=i=1nDi2\Delta_n=\sum_{i=1}^n D_i^2 be the Laplace operator on the polynomial algebra An=C[z1,,zn]{\mathcal A}_n=\mathbb C[z_1,\dots,z_n]. A polynomial P(z)AnP(z)\in{\mathcal A}_n is Hessian nilpotent when its Hessian matrix (2Pzizj)n×n(\frac{\partial^2P}{\partial z_i\partial z_j})_{n\times n} is nilpotent. The vanishing conjecture. For any homogeneous Hessian-nilpotent polynomial P(z)AnP(z)\in\mathcal A_n of degree 44, one has

ΔnmPm+1(z)=0\Delta_n^m P^{m+1}(z)=0

when m0m\gg0. This vanishing conjecture is a further reduction of the Jacobian conjecture; its status is not specified as resolved in the source.

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Primary source

Wenhua Zhao, “A Vanishing Conjecture on Differential Operators with Constant Coefficients”, arXiv:0704.1691 (2007).

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