Equivalence of Kuo and Thom quantities for analytic functions (Q2231992)

In this paper, the authors denote by $N$ the set of positive integers and by $E_{[s]}(n,p)$, $n\geq p$ the set of $C^{s}$ map-germs: $(\mathbb R^n,0)\to(\mathbb R^{p},0)$ where $s\in \mathbb N\cup\{\infty\}$. They introduce the Kuo quantity $K_{m}$ and Thom quantity $T_{m}$. The Thom quantity is a generalisation of the left side of a Thom type inequality and the Kuo quantity is a generalisation of the left side of a condition equivalent to condition $(K)$. Their main result is to show the equivalence between the Kuo quantity $K_{m}$ and Thom quantity $T_{m}$ i.e for $f\in E_{[s]}(n,p)$, $n\geq p$, then for any $m\in \mathbb N$, \[ K_{m}(f,.)\approx T_{m}(f,.). \]