CLASSIFICATION OF CUBIC HOMOGENEOUS POLYNOMIAL MAPS WITH JACOBIAN MATRICES OF RANK TWO

Abstract

Let $K$ be any field with $\text{char}\,K\neq 2,3$. We classify all cubic homogeneous polynomial maps $H$ over $K$ whose Jacobian matrix, ${\mathcal{J}}H$, has $\text{rk}\,{\mathcal{J}}H\leq 2$. In particular, we show that, for such an $H$, if $F=x+H$ is a Keller map, then $F$ is invertible and furthermore $F$ is tame if the dimension $n\neq 4$.