Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/4/a/ii/solution

No. On let
It is a bijection onto , with inverse . Nevertheless is singular whenever . Set-theoretic invertibility, even together with a continuous inverse, does not force invertibility of the total derivative. If the inverse were assumed differentiable, the chain rule applied to would force both derivatives to be invertible; that stronger assumption is absent here.

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