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IMAGES OF HIGHER-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS OF POLYNOMIAL ALGEBRAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2017

DAYAN LIU
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China email liudayan@jlu.edu.cn
XIAOSONG SUN*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China email sunxs@jlu.edu.cn
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Abstract

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We investigate images of higher-order differential operators of polynomial algebras over a field $k$. We show that, when $\operatorname{char}k>0$, the image of the set of differential operators $\{\unicode[STIX]{x1D709}_{i}-\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}_{i}\mid i=1,2,\ldots ,n\}$ of the polynomial algebra $k[\unicode[STIX]{x1D709}_{1},\ldots ,\unicode[STIX]{x1D709}_{n},z_{1},\ldots ,z_{n}]$ is a Mathieu subspace, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}_{i}\in k[\unicode[STIX]{x2202}_{z_{1}},\ldots ,\unicode[STIX]{x2202}_{z_{n}}]$ for $i=1,2,\ldots ,n$. We also show that, when $\operatorname{char}k=0$, the same conclusion holds for $n=1$. The problem concerning images of differential operators arose from the study of the Jacobian conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2017 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

This work was supported by the NSF of China (11401249, 11371165) and the STDPF of Jilin Province, China (20150520051JH, 20150101001JC).

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