On Tangency in Equisingular Families of Curves and Surfaces

DOI10.1093/QMATHJ/HAZ057zbMATH Open1442.32035arXiv1905.05153OpenAlexW3005007638MaRDI QIDQ5114488FDOQ5114488

Arturo Giles Flores, O. N. Silva, Jawad Snoussi

Publication date: 24 June 2020

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the behavior of limits of tangents in topologically equivalent spaces. In the context of families of generically reduced curves, we introduce the $s$-invariant of a curve and we show that in a Whitney equisingular family with the property that the $s$-invariant is constant along the parameter space, the number of tangents of each curve of the family is constant. In the context of families of isolated surface singularities, we show through examples that Whitney equisingularity is not sufficient to ensure that the tangent cones of the family are homeomorphic. We explain how the existence of exceptional tangents is preserved by Whitney equisingularity but their number can change.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05153

zbMATH Keywords

topological equivalencegerms of analytic sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local complex singularities (32S05)

Cited In (6)

• Tangency and a ruled surface associated with a Hitchin system
• On the fifth Whitney cone of a complex analytic curve
• Equisingularity in pencils of curves on germs of reduced complex surfaces
• On invariants of generic slices of weighted homogeneous corank 1 map germs from the plane to 3-space
• Limit of Tangents on Complex Surfaces
• On the topology of the transversal slice of a quasi-homogeneous map germ

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