The Fundamental Group of the Complement of an Algebraic Curve.
The jump of the Milnor number of an isolated singularity f 0 is the minimal non-zero difference between the Milnor numbers of f 0 and one of its deformations (f s). We prove that for the singularities in the X 9 singularity class their jumps are equal to 2.
Some estimates of the Łojasiewicz gradient exponent at infinity near any fibre of a polynomial in two variables are given. An important point in the proofs is a new Charzyński-Kozłowski-Smale estimate of critical values of a polynomial in one variable.
This paper deals with the Nash problem, which consists in comparing the number of families of arcs on a singular germ of surface with the number of essential components of the exceptional divisor in the minimal resolution of this singularity. We prove their equality in the case of the rational double points ().
We describe the set of minimal log discrepancies of toric log varieties, and study its accumulation points.