The proof of the Kontsevich periodicity conjecture on noncommutative birational transformations.

Abstract: For an arbitrary associative unital ring

R

, let

J_{1}

and

J_{2}

be the following noncommutative birational partly defined involutions on the set

M_{3} (R)

of

3 i m e s 3

matrices over

R

:

J_{1} (M) = M^{- 1}

(the usual matrix inverse) and

J_{2} (M)_{j k} = (M_{k j})^{- 1},

(the transpose of the Hadamard inverse). We prove the following surprising conjecture by Kontsevich saying that

(J_{2} c i r c J_{1})^{3}

is the identity map modulo the

{m D i a g}_{L} i m e s m {D i a g}_{R}

action

(D_{1}, D_{2}) (M) = D_{1}^{- 1} M D_{2}

of pairs of invertible diagonal matrices. That is, we show that for each

M

in the domain where

(J_{2} c i r c J_{1})^{3}

is defined, there are invertible diagonal

3 i m e s 3

matrices

D_{1} = D_{1} (M)

and

D_{2} = D_{2} (M)

such that

(J_{2} c i r c J_{1})^{3} (M) = D_{1}^{- 1} M D_{2} .

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