Even-lacuna conjecture for isolated plane critical points

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Let f(x1,x2)f(x_1,x_2) have an isolated non-Morse critical point at 00, and let its deformations be small deformations of this function. An even local lacuna is a local connected component of the complement of the discriminant in parameter space on which the even Petrovskii class vanishes. A critical value means the value of a perturbed function at one of its real critical points.

Even-lacuna conjecture. The deformations of ff have no even local lacunas unless ff has an extremum at the origin. If ff has a minimum at the origin, then all critical values of real critical points of all small perturbations belonging to such a lacuna are positive; if ff has a maximum, they are negative.

This claim would characterize the possible even local lacunas for isolated non-Morse critical points in two variables. The supplied context gives the extremum example but does not state whether the conjecture has been proved or disproved.

References

Primary source

Victor A. Vassiliev, “Local Petrovskii lacunas at parabolic singular points of wavefronts of strictly hyperbolic PDE's”, arXiv:1607.04042 (2016).

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