scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1003136

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This is a very nice survey (the usual Bourbaki's high standards) on the main outstanding open problems on the affine \(n\)-space \(\mathbb{A}^n\): Jacobian problem, cancellation problem (when \(Y\times \mathbb{A}^k \cong\mathbb{A}^{n+k}\) implies \(Y\cong \mathbb{A}^n\)?), embedding problem (is every closed embedding of \(\mathbb{A}^k\) into \(\mathbb{A}^n\) equivalent to a standard embedding ?), automorphism problem (give an algebraic description of the automorphisms of \(\mathbb{A}^n\) as affine variety), linearization problem (is every automorphism of \(\mathbb{A}^n\) of finite order linearizable?), complement problem (given two hypersurfaces \(E,F\) of \(\mathbb{A}^n\) with \(\mathbb{A}^n \setminus F\) isomorphic to \(\mathbb{A}^n \setminus E\), is \(E\) isomorphic to \(F\)?), fixed point problem (does every reductive group action on \(\mathbb{A}^n\) have a fixed point?). It contains a lot of nice examples and counterexamples, mainly related to actions of algebraic groups on \(\mathbb{A}^n\), and all the references up to the end of 1995. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0851.00039].




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