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mu-constancy does not imply constant bi-Lipschitz type

Algebraic Geometry 2010-02-22 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that a family of isolated complex hypersurface singularities with constant Milnor number may fail, in the strongest sense, to have constant bi-Lipschitz type. Our example is the Briac con--Speder family Xt:={(x,y,z)\C3x5+z15+y7z+txy6=0}X_t:=\{(x,y,z)\in\C^3 | x^5+z^{15}+y^7z+txy^6=0 \} of normal complex surface germs; we show the germ (X0,0)(X_0, 0) is not bi-Lipschitz homeomorphic with respect to the inner metric to the germ (Xt,0)(X_t,0) for t0t\ne 0.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0809.0845,
  title  = {mu-constancy does not imply constant bi-Lipschitz type},
  author = {Lev Birbrair and Alexandre Fernandes and Walter Neumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0845},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure

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