On Local Diffeomorphisms of R^n that are Injective

Alexandre Fernandes & Carlos Gutierrez and Roland Rabanal

Dedicated to Jorge Sotomayor on his 60th birthday


There are obtained conditions under which maps from $\R^n$ to itself are globally injective. In particular there are proved some partial results related to the Weak Markus-Yamabe Conjecture which states that if a vector field $X:\R^n \to \R^n$ has the property that, for all $p\in\R^n$, all the eigenvalues of $DX(p)$ have negative real part, then $X$ has at most one singularity.