We survey some recent results concerning the behavior of the contact structure defined on the boundary of a complex isolated hypersurface singularity or on the boundary at infinity of a complex polynomial.

We introduce two entire functions $f_{{\mathrm{A}}_{\frac{1}{2}\infty }}$ and $f_{{\mathrm{D}}_{\frac{1}{2}\infty }}$ in two variables. Both of them have only two critical values $0$ and $1$, and the associated maps ${\mathbf{C}}^2\to \mathbf{C}$ define topologically locally trivial fibrations over $\mathbf{C}\setminus \{0,1\}$. All critical points in the singular fibers over $0$ and $1$ are ordinary double points, and the associated vanishing cycles span the middle homology group of the general fiber, whose intersection diagram forms bi-partitely decomposed infinite quivers of type ${\mathrm{A}}_{\frac{1}{2}\infty }$ and ${\mathrm{D}}_{\frac{1}{2}\infty }$, respectively. Coxeter elements of type ${\mathrm{A}}_{\frac{1}{2}\infty }$ and...