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Main Authors: Bisi, Elia, Dyszewski, Piotr, Gantert, Nina, Johnston, Samuel G. G., Prochno, Joscha, Schmid, Dominik
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08221
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author Bisi, Elia
Dyszewski, Piotr
Gantert, Nina
Johnston, Samuel G. G.
Prochno, Joscha
Schmid, Dominik
author_facet Bisi, Elia
Dyszewski, Piotr
Gantert, Nina
Johnston, Samuel G. G.
Prochno, Joscha
Schmid, Dominik
contents We develop a probabilistic approach to the celebrated Jacobian conjecture, which states that any Keller map (i.e. any polynomial mapping $F\colon \mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}^n$ whose Jacobian determinant is a nonzero constant) has a compositional inverse which is also a polynomial. The Jacobian conjecture may be formulated in terms of a problem involving labellings of rooted trees; we give a new probabilistic derivation of this formulation using multi-type branching processes. Thereafter, we develop a simple and novel approach to the Jacobian conjecture in terms of a problem involving shuffling subtrees of $d$-Catalan trees, i.e. planar $d$-ary trees. We also show that, if one can construct a certain Markov chain on large $d$-Catalan trees which updates its value by randomly shuffling certain nearby subtrees, and in such a way that the stationary distribution of this chain is uniform, then the Jacobian conjecture is true. Finally, we use the local limit theory of large random trees to show that the subtree shuffling conjecture is true in a certain asymptotic sense, and thereafter use our machinery to prove an approximate version of the Jacobian conjecture, stating that inverses of Keller maps have small power series coefficients for their high degree terms.
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spellingShingle Random planar trees and the Jacobian conjecture
Bisi, Elia
Dyszewski, Piotr
Gantert, Nina
Johnston, Samuel G. G.
Prochno, Joscha
Schmid, Dominik
Combinatorics
Algebraic Geometry
Probability
60J80, 05C05, 14R15 (Primary), 60J10, 13F25 (Secondary)
We develop a probabilistic approach to the celebrated Jacobian conjecture, which states that any Keller map (i.e. any polynomial mapping $F\colon \mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}^n$ whose Jacobian determinant is a nonzero constant) has a compositional inverse which is also a polynomial. The Jacobian conjecture may be formulated in terms of a problem involving labellings of rooted trees; we give a new probabilistic derivation of this formulation using multi-type branching processes. Thereafter, we develop a simple and novel approach to the Jacobian conjecture in terms of a problem involving shuffling subtrees of $d$-Catalan trees, i.e. planar $d$-ary trees. We also show that, if one can construct a certain Markov chain on large $d$-Catalan trees which updates its value by randomly shuffling certain nearby subtrees, and in such a way that the stationary distribution of this chain is uniform, then the Jacobian conjecture is true. Finally, we use the local limit theory of large random trees to show that the subtree shuffling conjecture is true in a certain asymptotic sense, and thereafter use our machinery to prove an approximate version of the Jacobian conjecture, stating that inverses of Keller maps have small power series coefficients for their high degree terms.
title Random planar trees and the Jacobian conjecture
topic Combinatorics
Algebraic Geometry
Probability
60J80, 05C05, 14R15 (Primary), 60J10, 13F25 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08221