Non concentration of curvature near singular points of two variable analytic functions (Q2930209)

Let \(f:(\mathbb{K}^{2},0)\rightarrow (\mathbb{K},0)\) be an analytic function germ not identically zero, where \(\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\). The authors study the curvature of the level curves \(f=c,\) \(c\) small. They introduce the notion of concentration of curvature of \(f\) at \(0\in \mathbb{K} ^{2}\), which intuitively can be formulated as follows: \(f\) has concentration of curvature at \(0\in \mathbb{K}^{2}\) if the set of directions (vectors) in \( \mathbb{K}^{2}\) is finite for which there are Puiseux arcs \(\gamma\), centered at \(0\) and with these directions, such that: in the points of \(\gamma \) the curvature of the level set of \(f\) passing through these points attains maximum (see the precise definition in the paper). They characterize completely this phenomenon in complex case in terms of tree models and topological types of \(f\). They also show that the corresponding characterization does not hold in the real case.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1291.32001].