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Is this true?

map with everywhere non-zero Jacobian is injective

No — it is false.

The counterexample

f(x,y) = (eˣ cos y, eˣ sin y) on

The Jacobian determinant is ≠ 0, but . Invertibility is only local.

The kind of mistake this is

Hypothesis dropped

A theorem applied without checking one of its preconditions.

Drill statements like this

Others that fail the same way

From Functions of Several VariablesInverse and implicit function theorems, extrema

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