6533b7dcfe1ef96bd12727b9

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Left-Right Equivalence and Stability

Juan J. Nuño-ballesterosDavid Mond

subject

Pure mathematicsDeterminacyInfinitesimalTangent spaceEquivalence relationEquivalence (measure theory)Mathematics

description

We introduce the key equivalence relations on germs of maps, which play an important role throughout the book—right-equivalence and left-right equivalence (A-equivalence). These are induced by groups of diffeomorphisms, so equivalence classes have tangent spaces, and we calculate many examples, including some multi-germs. We introduce the notions of stability and finite determinacy, and prove Mather’s infinitesimal criterion for stability.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34440-5_3