A relation between the sequence of multiplicities and the semigroup of values of an algebroid curve (Q1087932)

A curve X admits a deformation into a monomial curve \(X_ 0\) with the same semigroup of values S(X) and the same multiplicity E(X) as X if and only if E(X) and S(X) are compatible. Here a numerical semigroup \(\Gamma \subset {\mathbb{Z}}_+\) is said to be compatible with a multiplicity sequence E of a curve if there exists a monomial curve X with \(S(X)=\Gamma\) and having E as its multiplicities sequence. The main tools are the Hamburger-Noether matrices associated to quadratic tranformations of algebroid curves, Arf closures of such curves and a construction of deformations of curves due to Teissier.