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Complements of discriminants of real parabolic function singularities. II

Algebraic Geometry 2026-03-17 v6

Abstract

We list all connected components of sets of non-discriminant functions near all {\em parabolic} function singularities (which are the second most important family of singularity classes of smooth functions after {\em simple} singularities). Thus, we prove (and improve in one particular case) all the corresponding conjectures from the previous work \cite{para} with the same title. As an application, we enumerate all {\em local Petrovskii lacunas} near arbitrary parabolic singularities of wavefronts of hyperbolic PDEs. We also show that the complements of the discriminant varieties of the versal deformations of X9±X_9^{\pm} and P81P_8^1 singularities have nontrivial one-dimensional homology groups, in contrast to all simple singularities. These results are applications of a general method for investigating and separating non-singular perturbations of real function singularities. An important part of this method is a computer program that formalizes local Picard--Lefschetz theory and surgeries of Morse functions.

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@article{arxiv.2512.12738,
  title  = {Complements of discriminants of real parabolic function singularities. II},
  author = {V. A. Vassiliev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12738},
  year   = {2026}
}