Teissier's conjecture on sectional Milnor numbers and topological type

Let (X,x)(X,x) and (Y,y)(Y,y) be germs of isolated hypersurface singularities with the same topological type. For a germ (X,x)(X,x), let 4μ(i)(X,x)44\mu^{(i)}(X,x)4 denote its iith sectional Milnor number, and write

μ(X,x)=(μ(n+1)(X,x),μ(n)(X,x),,μ(0)(X,x)).\mu^*(X,x)=(\mu^{(n+1)}(X,x),\mu^{(n)}(X,x),\ldots,\mu^{(0)}(X,x)).

Teissier's conjecture. If the germs have the same topological type, then

μ(X,x)=μ(Y,y).\mu^*(X,x)=\mu^*(Y,y).

The conjecture asserts that the full sequence of sectional Milnor numbers is a topological invariant. It contains Zariski's multiplicity conjecture, but was disproved in 1975 by J. Briançon and J.-P. Speder.

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Kriti Goel, R. V. Gurjar and J. K. Verma, “The Minkowski equality and inequality for multiplicity of ideals”, arXiv:1807.06309 (2019).

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