Ruas's conjecture on Whitney equisingularity of surface families

Let f:(C2,0)(C3,0)f:(\mathbb{C}^2,0)\rightarrow(\mathbb{C}^3,0) be a finitely determined map germ, and let F:(C2×C,0)(C3×C,0)F:(\mathbb{C}^2\times\mathbb{C},0)\rightarrow(\mathbb{C}^3\times\mathbb{C},0) be a 11-parameter unfolding of ff, written as F(x,t)=(ft(x),t)F(x,t)=(f_t(x),t). Let D(ft)D(f_t) denote the double point curve of ftf_t, and let μ(D(ft))\mu(D(f_t)) be its Milnor number. Ruas's conjecture. If μ(D(ft))\mu(D(f_t)) is constant, then FF is Whitney equisingular. This conjecture proposes that constancy of the Milnor number of the double point curve is the unique necessary and sufficient invariant controlling Whitney equisingularity in these families; the converse of Whitney equisingularity implying topological triviality is asserted for this setting, but the supplied text gives no resolution.

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M. A. S. Ruas and O. N. Silva, “Whitney equisingularity of families of surfaces in C^3”, arXiv:1608.08290 (2017).

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