Bi-Lipschitz Invariance of the Multiplicity

Alexandre Fernandes () and José Edson Sampaio ()
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Alexandre Fernandes: Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Matemática
José Edson Sampaio: Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Matemática

Chapter Chapter 9 in Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities IV, 2023, pp 463-496 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The multiplicity of an algebraic curve C in the complex plane at a point p on that curve is defined as the number of points that occur at the intersection of C with a general complex line that passes close to the point p. It is shown that p is a singular point of the curve C if and only if this multiplicity is greater than or equal to 2, in this sense, such an integer number can be considered as a measure of how singular can be a point of the curve C. In these notes, we address the classical concept of multiplicity of singular points of complex algebraic sets (not necessarily complex curves) and we approach the nature of the multiplicity of singular points as a geometric invariant from the perspective of the Multiplicity Conjecture (Zariski 1971). More precisely, we bring a discussion on the recent results obtained jointly with Lev Birbrair, Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, Lê Dũng Tráng and Mikhail Verbitsky on the bi-Lipschitz invariance of the multiplicity.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31925-9_9

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