Equisingular algebraic approximation of real and complex analytic germs

Abstract

We show that a Cohen-Macaulay analytic singularity can be arbitrarily closely approximated by germs of Nash sets which are also Cohen-Macaulay and share the same Hilbert-Samuel function. We also prove that every analytic singularity is topologically equivalent to a Nash singularity with the same Hilbert-Samuel function.