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EPSRC Reference: GR/S48639/01
Title: Disentanglements and Whitney Equisingularity
Principal Investigator: Houston, Dr K
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Department: Pure Mathematics
Organisation: University of Leeds
Scheme: Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts: 30 July 2003 Ends: 29 August 2003 Value (£): 1,794
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Algebra & Geometry
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Communications Electronics
Creative Industries
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The goal of the proposed research is to change the way a problem on the triviality of a family of complex analytic maps is approached. To find the triviality of such a family one can use invariants introduced and investigated by Gaffney. These are difficult to define and apply, since their definition varies greatly from one invariant to another. An alternative method is to take a sequence of linear slices of different dimensions of the discriminant of perturbations of each family member. In low dimensional cases it can be shown that constancy within the family of the betti numbers of these spaces is equivalent to Whitney equisingularity, and hence the family is trivial. The proposal is to fund a visit by the investigator to work with colleagues in Brazil to explore the extent to which this is true in more general dimensions.
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