The adjacency injection conjecture for discriminant-complement groups

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Let ff and gg be singular functions such that ff is adjacent to gg, so that a versal unfolding of gg is also a versal unfolding for ff. Let 4mu4mu and tildeμtilde\mu be the corresponding Milnor numbers, and write Df{\cal D}_f and Df~{\cal D}_{\tilde f} for the discriminant complements in the respective parameter spaces. Adjacency injection conjecture. The natural map

π1(CμDf)π1(Cμ~Df~)\pi_1({\mathbf C}^{\mu}\setminus{\cal D}_f)\longrightarrow \pi_1({\mathbf C}^{\tilde\mu}\setminus{\cal D}_{\tilde f})

is injective, fitting into the commutative diagram with the free groups FμF_\mu and Fμ~F_{\tilde\mu} displayed in the source. This conjecture concerns how fundamental groups behave under adjacency of singular functions; the source presents it as a speculation and gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Michael Lönne, “Braid Monodromy of Hypersurface Singularities”, arXiv:math/0602371 (2006).

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