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Originating problem: A free group generated by exponential and squaring maps
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2Authored explanation
A dated independent review on 2026-08-01 checked the structured sources below, the complete visible source discussion, exact-title and equivalent-formulation searches, and the current TheoremDB corpus. The MathOverflow question, answer, and all comments were checked on 2026-07-27. The visible argument is conditional on Schanuel's conjecture, and commenters dispute whether its algebraic-independence step handles every reduced word. Ax's 1971 theorem on Schanuel-type differential results was checked because the thread asks whether it applies. The audit did not find a published specialization proving this exact homeomorphism-group statement. Searches for the two generators, their inverse maps, and free subgroups of Homeo_+(R) found general constructions but no direct unconditional treatment of this pair. A local TheoremDB search for exponential-square generators and the exact functional words found no duplicate.
A complete resolution must satisfy: Prove that every nonempty freely reduced word in f^{+/-1} and g^{+/-1} differs from the identity at some x>0, or exhibit a nonempty freely reduced word that is the identity on all x>0. A conditional proof must state its hypothesis explicitly and does not settle the unconditional target.
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Verification source: mathoverflow.net ↗, Dataset references and independent 2026-08-01 status search.
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