Topological equisingularity of hypersurfaces with 1-dimensional critical set (Q2437550)

The paper under review studies topological equisingularity for family of holomorphic germs with one-dimensional critical set through a notion of equisingularity at the critical set introduced by the author. It is conjectured that notions of topological equisingularity and equisingularity at the critical set coincide. Let \(f_t: \mathbb C^n \to \mathbb C\) be a family of holomorphic function germs depending smoothly on a parameter \(t\in T\) such that each \(f_t\) has one-dimensional critical set \(\Sigma_t\) at the origin. The family \(f_t\) is said to be equisingular at the critical set if the family \(\Sigma_t\) is topologically equisingular by a family of homeomorphisms preserving the transversal Milnor number outside the origin. Suppose that \(n\geq 5\). Then author proves that if \(f_t\) is equisingular at the critical set, then the diffeomorphism type of the Milnor fibration, the topological type of the embedded link, and the topological right-equivalence type of \(f_t\) are independent of \(t\). Furthermore the author proved that if \(f_t\) is a holomorphic family and the generic Lê numbers at the origin are independent of \(t\), then \(f_t\) is equisingular at the critical set. He also introduced a topological stem, which is a modification of Pellikaan's stem. Applying the result above, he proves that a holomorphic function germ \(f: \mathbb C^n \to \mathbb C\), \(n\geq 5\), is a topological stem of finite degree if and only if its critical set is one-dimensional, and the degree of the stem is bounded by the generic first Lê number at the origin of \(f\).