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We present here basic results in Lipschitz Geometry of semialgebraic surface germs. Although bi-Lipschitz classification problem of surface germs with respect to the inner metric was solved long ago, classification with respect to the outer metric remains an open problem. We review recent results related to the outer and ambient bi-Lipschitz classification of surface germs. In particular, we explain why the outer bi-Lipschitz classification is much harder than the inner classification, and why the ambient Lipschitz Geometry of surface germs is very different from their outer Lipschitz Geometry. In particular, we show that the ambient Lipschitz Geometry of surface germs includes all of the Knot Theory.
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Research of Lev Birbrair is supported by the CNPq 302655/2014-0 grant and by the grant U1U/W16/NO/01.01 of Jagiellonian University.
We would like to thank professor Edson Sampaio for very useful discussions related to the subjects of these notes.
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Birbrair, L., Gabrielov, A. (2023). Lipschitz Geometry of Real Semialgebraic Surfaces. In: Cisneros-Molina, J.L., Dũng Tráng, L., Seade, J. (eds) Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities IV. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31925-9_8
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