%0 Journal Article %T Jacobians and branch points of real analytic open maps %A Morris W. Hirsch %J Mathematics %D 2005 %I arXiv %X The main result is that the Jacobian determinant of an analytic open map from Euclidean n-space to itself does not change sign. A corollary of the proof is that the set of branch points has dimension < n-1. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512335v1