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Smooth critical points of planar harmonic mappings
In a work in 1992, Lyzzaik studies local properties of light harmonic
mappings. More precisely, he classifies their critical points and accordingly
studies their topological and geometrical behaviours. We will focus our study
on smooth critical points of light harmonic maps. We will establish several
relationships between miscellaneous local invariants, and show how to connect
them to Lyzzaik's models. With a crucial use of Milnor fibration theory, we get
a fundamental and yet quite unexpected relation between three of the numerical
invariants, namely the complex multiplicity, the local order of the map and the
Puiseux pair of the critical value curve. We also derive similar results for a
real and complex analytic planar germ at a regular point of its Jacobian
level-0 curve. Inspired by Whitney's work on cusps and folds, we develop an
iterative algorithm computing the invariants. Examples are presented in order
to compare the harmonic situation to the real analytic one.Comment: 36 pages, 5 figure
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