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Braid monodromy of some Brieskorn-pham singularities

  • Michael Lönne

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Abstract

For germs of isolated hypersurface singularities Lyashko and Looijenga introduced a map LL on the complement of the bifurcation set. It takes values in the space of simple polynomials of degree equal to the Milnor number μ of the singularity, and thus induces a map LL* from the fundamental group to the braid group on μ strands. For the case of curve singularities given by a polynomial x3 + yℓ+1 we give a uniform description of the image LL* and derive a presentation of the discriminant knot group, i.e. for the fundamental group of the complement to the discriminant divisor.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1047-1070
Number of pages24
JournalInternational Journal of Mathematics
Volume21
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2010
Externally publishedYes

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