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Lipschitz contact equivalence of function germs in $\mathbb{R}^2$

Algebraic Geometry 2014-07-11 v2

Abstract

In this paper we study Lipschitz contact equivalence of continuous function germs in the plane definable in a polynomially bounded o-minimal structure, such as semialgebraic and subanalytic functions. We partition the germ of the plane at the origin into zones where the function has explicit asymptotic behavior. Such a partition is called a pizza. We show that each function germ admits a minimal pizza, unique up to combinatorial equivalence. We show then that two definable continuous function germs are definably Lipschitz contact equivalent if and only if their corresponding minimal pizzas are equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.1406.2559,
  title  = {Lipschitz contact equivalence of function germs in $\mathbb{R}^2$},
  author = {Lev Birbrair and Alexandre Fernandes and Andrei Gabrielov and Vincent Grandjean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2559},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, added Section 5 on Geometric realization of abstract pizzas

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