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Could someone give me an example of a local diffeomorphism from $\mathbb{R}^p$ to $\mathbb{R}^p$ (function of class say $C^k$ with an invertible differential map in each point) that is not a diffeomorphism..

in the real line (1 dim case) that would mean a function with a continuous non null derivative on an open $V$ of $\mathbb{R}$ that is not bijective which does not make sense thus any local diffeomorphism on the real line is a diffeo..

Could one give me a counterexample in a higher dimension?

Thanks

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Take the complex exponential $e^z$ as a function from $R^2$ to $R^2$. For every horizontal strip [iy+ i(y+2Pi) ) (i.e., including iy, but not i(y+2Pi)) there is an inverse--a logz --, but there is no global inverse. – gary May 15 '11 at 1:37
Thank you a lot gary – El Moro May 15 '11 at 1:40
No problem, Moro, glad to help. – gary May 15 '11 at 1:44
there is no inverse around zero – yoyo May 15 '11 at 2:27
Correction: that should be the strip [iy, i(y+2Pi)) – gary May 15 '11 at 2:38
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