On semi-equivalence of generically-finite polynomial mappings (Q284780)

Let \(f,g:X\rightarrow Y\) be continuous mappings between topological spaces \(X \) and \(Y\). We say \(f\) is topologically equivalent (resp. semi-equivalent) to \(g\) if there exist homeomorphisms \(\Phi :X\rightarrow X\) (resp. \(\Phi :U\rightarrow V\), where \(U,V\subset X\) are open and dense) and \(\Psi :Y\rightarrow Y\) such that \(\Psi \circ f\circ \Phi =g\) on \(X\) (resp. on \(U\) ). The author shows that in every algebraic family \((f_{m})_{m\in M}\) of polynomial mappings \(f_{m}:X\rightarrow Y\) between smooth irreducible affine complex varieties there is only a finite number of topologically not semi-equivalent (resp. not equivalent) generically-finite (resp. proper) mappings. In particular for \(X=\mathbb{C}^{n}\) and \(Y=\mathbb{C}^{m}\) there exists only a finite number of classes of topologically semi-equivalent (resp. equivalent) generically-finite (resp. proper) polynomial mappings \( \mathbb{C}^{n}\) into \(\mathbb{C}^{m}\) of bounded degree. The first case of the above corollary is not true if we replace the semi-equivalence by the equivalence; se \textit{I. Nakai}'s result in [Topology 23, 45--66 (1984; Zbl 0531.58004)].