TOPOLOGY OF 1-PARAMETER DEFORMATIONS OF NON-ISOLATED REAL SINGULARITIES

Abstract Let $f\,{:}\,(\mathbb R^n,0)\to (\mathbb R,0)$ be an analytic function germ with non-isolated singularities and let $F\,{:}\, (\mathbb{R}^{1+n},0) \to (\mathbb{R},0)$ be a 1-parameter deformation of f. Let $ f_t ^{-1}(0) \cap B_\epsilon^n$ , $0 < \vert t \vert \ll \epsilon$ , be the “generalized” Milnor fiber of the deformation F. Under some conditions on F, we give a topological degree formula for the Euler characteristic of this fiber. This generalizes a result of Fukui.