Equisingularity in \(\mathbb R^2\) as Morse stability in infinitesimal calculus (Q815148)

The authors study a connection between Morse stability and a trivialization condition for an analytic deformation. In order to prove their main theorem on equivalence of this two notions they introduce the ``enriched'' real line \(\mathbb R_*\) adding to the reals some kind of infinitesimals. The infinitesimals are represented by analytic arcs parametrized by the fractional power series.