Classification of polynomials from \(\mathbb{C}^2\) to \(\mathbb{C}\) with one critical value (Q1433414)

The paper studies complex polynomials in two variables with only one critical value (bifurcation value). The bifurcation set \(B\) is the minimal set of values such that the restriction \(\mathbb{C}^2-f^{-1}(B) \to \mathbb{C}-B\) is a locally trivial fibration. The author gives a complete classification of reduced polynomials with one critical value, modulo topological equivalence. There are three cases to be treated: if the critical value is ``affine'' if it is at infinity, and if both is fulfilled. Results and methods of Abhyankar-Moh and Zaidenberg-Lin are used to study the problem modulo algebraic equivalence, then resolutions of singularities are used to obtain the topological classification.