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$%H. Maugendre, Topologie comparée d’une courbe polaire et de sa courbe discriminante, Rev. Mat. Complut. 12 (1999), no. 2, 439–450.%$

Let be an analytic function germ at in . We compare the topological complexity of the discriminant curve of to the one of its polar curve.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14B05, 32S05, 32S45, 57M25.