Bifurcation values and monodromy of mixed polynomials (Q2391585)

The article studies the bifurcation values of real polynomial maps \(f:{\mathbb R}^{2n}\to {\mathbb R}^2\), which reflect the lack of asymptotic regularity at infinity. The study is supported and motivated by (at least) two families of examples: the complex polynomials studied extensively in the last decades, and the class of Newton non-degenerate mixed polynomials defined by M. Oka. The authors extend several results from the complex case. The first general results extends results of the reviewer and \textit{A. Zaharia} [Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 26, No. 4, 681--689 (1990; Zbl 0736.32024)] (valid for complex polynomials), which describe the bifurcation set in terms of `Milnor set' (obstruction of `M-tameness'). In the classical case Némethi--Zaharia applied their result for complex polynomials with non-degenerate principal part at infinity and described the bifurcation set in terms of `bad faces' of the polyhedron. In the present article this result is generalized for Oka's family of mixed polynomials. Moreover, the authors present several examples showing the subtleties of the real case and certain differences with the complex case.