Invariance of Milnor numbers and topology of complex polynomials

  • Arnaud Bodin

    Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Bellaterra, Spain

Abstract

We give a global version of Lê-Ramanujam 7-constant theorem for polynomials. Let , , be a family of polynomials of n complex variables with isolated singularities, whose coefficients are polynomials in t. We consider the case where some numerical invariants are constant (the affine Milnor number 7(t), the Milnor number at infinity 5(t), the number of critical values, the number of affine critical values, the number of critical values at infinity). Let n=2, we also suppose the degree of the is a constant, then the polynomials and are topologically equivalent. For we suppose that critical values at infinity depend continuously on t, then we prove that the geometric monodromy representations of the are all equivalent.

Cite this article

Arnaud Bodin, Invariance of Milnor numbers and topology of complex polynomials. Comment. Math. Helv. 78 (2003), no. 1, pp. 134–152

DOI 10.1007/S000140300006