Bifurcation locus and branches at infinity of a polynomial f : C2 -> c
arXiv:1401.6544 · doi:10.1007/s00208-014-1100-0
Abstract
We show that the number of bifurcation points at infinity of a polynomial function f : C2 -> C is at most the number of branches at infinity of a generic fiber of f and that this upper bound can be diminished by one in certain cases.