Whitney regularity and Thom condition for families of non-isolated mixed singularities

Abstract

We investigate the equisingularity question for 1-parameter deformation families of mixed polynomial functions $f_t({\boldsymbol{z}},\bar{{\boldsymbol{z}}})$ from the Newton polygon point of view. We show that if the members $f_t$ of the family satisfy a number of elementary conditions, which can be easily described in terms of the Newton polygon, then the corresponding family of mixed hypersurfaces $f_t^{-1}(0)$ is Whitney equisingular (and hence topologically equisingular) and satisfies the Thom condition.