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On the origin of the Jacobian conjecture

Lázaro O. Rodríguez Díaz
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The Jacobian conjecture is thought to have been proposed by O. H. Keller in 1939. However, we have found that the statement of the conjecture is precisely the main result of a paper published by L. Kraus in 1884. Although the final step of Kraus's proof is flawed, the ideas he introduced anticipated approaches to the problem that would only emerge more than a century later. Interestingly, the root of Kraus's error remains the principal obstacle to algebro-geometric approaches: controlling the ramification at infinity.

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Lázaro O. Rodríguez Díaz. 2025-12-29. On the origin of the Jacobian conjecture. https://doi.org/10.5802/crmath.831

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