Before getting started, let us go back on some definitions: Definition. Let be an open subset of and let be a -mapping, then is a -diffeomorphism or globally invertible if and only if there exists a -mapping such that:
In other words, is a bijection whose inverse is smooth. This is not to be confused with:
Definition. The mapping is said to be a local diffeomorphism or locally invertible if and only if when restricted to an open subset of , is a diffeomorphism onto its image.
Notice that being locally invertible around any point does not imply being globally invertible.
Theorem. Let be an open subset of , let be a point of and let be a -mapping. Assume that is an invertible linear map, then there exists an open neighbourhood of such that is a -diffeomorphism.