Unfoldings in Knot Theory.
Let be a codim 1 local foliation generated by a germ of the form for some complex numbers and germs of holomorphic functions at the origin in . We determine, under some conditions, the set of equivalence classes of first order unfoldings and construct explicitly a universal unfolding of . Special cases of this include foliations with holomorphic or meromorphic first integrals. We also show that the unfolding theory for is equivalent to the unfolding theory for the multiform function...