THE LINEARISATION CONJECTURE AND OTHER PROBLEMS OVER NONREDUCED RINGS (Q4532447)

The author presents some properties over rings which remain unchanged if one considers non-reduced rings \(R\) or the corresponding reduced ring \(\overline R\) (modulo the nil radical). Among others the following results are obtained: (1) For locally nilpotent derivations \(D\) having a slice the cancellation problem (i.e. \(D\) is conjugate to \(\partial_{X_1}\) over \(R[X_1,\dots, X_n]\)) is equivalent to that over \(\overline R[X_1,\dots, X_n]\); (2) if \(F\in R[X_1,\dots, X_n]^n\), \(F^s= (X_1,\dots, X_n)\) for some \(s\geq 1\), the linearisation conjecture over \(R\) (i.e. \(F\) is linearizable by conjugation) is equivalent to that over \(\overline R\).