Exponential automorphisms of polynomial algebras

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The authors study exponential automorphisms of the polynomial algebra \(K[x]=K[x_1,\dots,x_n]\) over a field \(K\) of characteristic 0. Recall that a test polynomial is a polynomial \(p\) such that if an endomorphism of \(K[x]\) fixes \(p\) then this endomorphism is actually an automorphism. The authors prove that if the exponential automorphism \(\exp\Delta\) is induced by a locally nilpotent derivation \(\Delta\) of \(K[x]\) then it has no test polynomials. Further they consider the class of the exponential automorphisms \(\exp\Delta\) such that all their powers have the same Newton polytope and for every fixed \(i\), the same monomials participate in \((\exp\Delta)^m(x_i)\) for all \(m\geq 1\). The authors prove that such automorphisms are compositions of two commuting automorphisms, the first being semisimple, and the second an exponent of a locally nilpotent derivation.











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