A criterion for topological equivalence of two variable complex analytic function germs

Abstract

We show that two analytic function germs $(\C^2,0) \to (\C,0)$ are topologically right equivalent if and only if there is a one-to-one correspondence between the irreducible components of their zero sets that preserves the multiplicites of these components, their Puiseux pairs, and the intersection numbers of any pairs of distinct components.

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