Properties of surjective real quadratic maps

The properties of surjective real quadratic maps are investigated. Sufficient conditions for the property of surjectivity to be stable under various perturbations are obtained. Examples of surjective quadratic maps whose surjectivity breaks down after an arbitrarily small perturbation are constructed. Sufficient conditions for quadratic maps to have nontrivial zeros are obtained. For a smooth even map in a neighbourhood of the origin an inverse function theorem in terms of the degree of the corresponding quadratic map is obtained. A canonical form of surjective quadratic maps from ℝ3 to ℝ3 is constructed. © 2016 Russian Academy of Sciences (DoM), London Mathematical Society, Turpion Ltd.