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Publications and source records attributed to Maciej Borodzik.
We provide a very effective and explicit algorithm of finding a Puiseux expansion of a cuspidal singularity of a plane curve, when this singularity is given in a parametric form.
We use a knot invariant, namely the Tristram--Levine signature to study deformations of singular points of plane curves. We find a bound on the sum of M numbers over all singularities of a generic fiber in terms of the M number of the singularity at the central fiber and some topological data.
We bound the maximal number N of singular points of a plane algebraic curve C that has precisely one place at infinity with one branch in terms of its first Betti number $b_1(C)$. Asymptotically we prove that $N<\sim{17/11}b_1(C)$ for large $b_1$. In particular, in the case of curves with one place at infinity, we confirm the Zaidenberg and Lin conjecture stating that $N\le 2b_1+1$.
We provide the full classification of algebraic embeddings of $\mathbb{C}^*$ into $\mathbb{C}^2$ satisfying certain regularity condition, which conjecturally holds for all algebraic maps from $\mathbb{C}^*$ into $\mathbb{C}^2$. The resulting list comprises 1 smooth family, 18 discrete families and 4 special cases. Any embedding known to us can be reduced to one of this list by a de Jonquière transform and a suitable change of variables. The classification uses in general tools from previous work "Complex algebraic curves via Poincare--Hopf formula. I. Parametric lines." (Pacific. J. Math. 229 (2007) No. 2, 307--338): we carefully estimate Milnor numbers of singularities that may appear in the embedding of $\mathbb{C}^*$. We use the regularity condition to bound the sum of so--called codimensions of singular points. The detailed discussion of this condition can be found in http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~mcboro/pliki/artykuly/curv4.pdf