Note on the degree of \(C^ 0\)-sufficiency of plane curves (Q1262411)

Let \(S_{\epsilon}\) denote the \(\epsilon\)-sphere in \({\mathbb{C}}^ 2\) centred at 0. Say that two germs f,g: (\({\mathbb{C}}^ 2,0)\to ({\mathbb{C}},0)\) are \(\partial\)-equivalent if there is \(\eta >0\) so that for any \(\epsilon\), \(0<\epsilon <\eta\), there is a set of disjoint annuli in \(S_{\epsilon}\) so that the boundary of each annulus consists of a component of \(S_{\epsilon}\cap f^{-1}(0)\) and a component of \(S_{\epsilon}\cap g^{-1}(0)\) and that all components are obtained in this way. The \(\delta\)-degree of sufficiency of f is the smallest integer r which guarantees that f and g are \(\partial\)-equivalent whenever \(j^{(r)}f=j^{(r)}g\). In this paper it is shown that the \(\partial\)- degree of sufficiency is the same as the \(C^ 0\)-degree of sufficiency.