Mond's conjecture for frontal map germs

Let f ⁣:(Cn,S)(Cn+1,0)f\colon (\mathbb{C}^n,S) \to (\mathbb{C}^{n+1},0) be an \mathcal{F}-finite frontal map germ. Let μF(f)\mu_{\mathcal{F}}(f) denote its frontal Milnor number, and let codimFef\operatorname{codim}_{\mathcal{F}_e}f denote its extended frontal codimension. Assume that (n,n+1)(n,n+1) is in the frontal nice dimensions. Mond's conjecture.

μF(f)codimFef,\mu_{\mathcal{F}}(f) \geq \operatorname{codim}_{\mathcal{F}_e}f,

with equality if ff is quasihomogeneous. This is the frontal version of Mond's conjecture, relating the number of spheres in the frontal disentanglement to the extended frontal codimension. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture is resolved, so its status is left open.

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Primary source

C. Muñoz-Cabello, J. J. Nuño-Ballesteros and R. Oset Sinha, “A proof of the Mond conjecture for wave fronts”, arXiv:2407.16635 (2024).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1810.09002, arXiv:1604.02422, arXiv:1202.4992.

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