The contact boundary of a complex polynomial

DOI10.1007/S00229-003-0366-4MaRDI QIDQ1401489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clément Caubel, Mihai-Marius Tibar

Publication date 17 August 2003

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-003-0366-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological aspects of complex singularities: Lefschetz theorems, topological classification, invariants (32S50) Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Almost contact and almost symplectic manifolds (53D15)

Review text

The authors define the contact boundary of a complex polynomial \(f\colon {\mathbb C}^n\to{\mathbb C}\) as the intersection of some generic fiber with a large sphere and show that, up to contact isotopy, this is independent on the choice of generic fiber. Moreover, it is shown to be invariant under polynomial automorphisms of \({\mathbb C}^n\). It is also shown that the formal homotopy class of the contact structure on the contact boundary does not change under a large class of deformations of the polynomial \(f\), which are not necessarily topologically trivial.

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