Lê numbers and Newton diagram (Q2214081)

The aim of this paper is to give an algorithm to compute the Lê numbers of the germ of a Newton non-degenerate complex analytic function \(f:(\mathbb{C}^n, 0)\longrightarrow(\mathbb{C}, 0)\) in terms of certain invariants attached to the Newton diagram of the function \(f+z_1^{\alpha_1}+\cdots+z_d^{\alpha_d}\), where \(d\) is the dimension of the critical locus of \(f\) and \(\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_d\) are sufficiently large integers. This is a version for non-isolated singularities of a theorem of \textit{A. G. Kushnirenko} [Invent. Math. 32, 1--31 (1976; Zbl 0328.32007)]. As a corollary, the authors obtain that Newton non-degenerate functions with the same Newton diagram have the same Lê numbers. In particular, any 1-parameter deformation family of non-degenerate functions with constant Newton diagram has constant Lê numbers. This paper is organized as follows. The first section is an introduction to the subject. In the second section the authors recall the definition of the Lê numbers. In Section 3, following Kouchnirenko's definition of the Newton number, the authors introduce their modified Newton numbers. The main result concerning the formulas for the Lê numbers of a non-degenerate function \(f\) in terms of the modified Newton numbers of the function \(f+z_1^{\alpha_1}+ \cdots+z_d^{\alpha_d}\) is given in Section 4 and corollaries of these formulas are given in Section 5. In Section 6, the authors discuss a complete example. Sections 7 and 8 are devoted to the proofs of their main result and main corollary, respectively.