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Vanishing cycles and special fibres

  • Dirk Siersma
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM, volume 1462)

Abstract

We show that the homotopy type of certain special fibres in a perturbation of a holomorphic function is a wedge of spheres of middle dimension. We also define a basis of the homology of the special fibre.

Keywords

Homotopy Type Special Fibre Milnor Number Singular Fibre Milnor Fibre 
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dirk Siersma
    • 1
  1. 1.Mathematisch InstituutRijksuniversiteit te UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands

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