Sur la classification des branches. (On classification of branches) (Q1823277)

Zariski has shown that the equisingularity class of a plane algebroid branch (i.e. the germ of an irreducible algebroid curve) with local ring (A,\({\mathfrak m})\) is determined by the Puiseux-coefficients or - equivalently - by the semigroup \(\Gamma\) of the natural valuation of the normalization \(\bar A\) of A. The author gives a third characterization of this equisingularity class using the ``group of relative units'' of A, i.e. the quotient of the group of the units of \(\bar A={\mathbb{C}}[[t]]\) modulo the group of units of A, which has an algebraic structure (see theorem I.1.4) defined by certain polynomials. In the case of plane branches the degrees of these polynomials characterize the equisingularity class of the branch associated to A (see I.2.13 and also I.2.12 for the more general case). Moreover the relations between the A- algebra \(End_ A({\mathfrak m}^ p)\) and the semigroup associated to the branch are considered.