Saddle point braids of braided fibrations and pseudo-fibrations

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between braids formed by roots and critical points of polynomial loops, demonstrating conditions under which associated maps are fibrations and linking these concepts to singularity theory.

Contribution

It establishes a connection between braid pairs and polynomial maps with weakly isolated singularities, extending the understanding of fibrations in complex polynomial families.

Findings

For T-homogeneous braids, the pseudo-fibration map is a true fibration.

Visualizations are provided for the case of homogeneous braids.

Any pair of links can be realized via a polynomial with specific singularity properties.

Abstract

Let $g_t$ be a loop in the space of monic complex polynomials in one variable of fixed degree $n$. If the roots of $g_t$ are distinct for all $t$, they form a braid $B_1$ on $n$ strands. Likewise, if the critical points of $g_t$ are distinct for all $t$, they form a braid $B_2$ on $n-1$ strands. In this paper we study the relationship between $B_1$ and $B_2$. Composing the polynomials $g_t$ with the argument map defines a pseudo-fibration map on the complement of the closure of $B_1$ in $\mathbb{C}\times S^1$, whose critical points lie on $B_2$. We prove that for $B_1$ a T-homogeneous braid and $B_2$ the trivial braid this map can be taken to be a fibration map. In the case of homogeneous braids we present a visualisation of this fact. Our work implies that for every pair of links $L_1$ and $L_2$ there is a mixed polynomial $f:\mathbb{C}^2\to\mathbb{C}$ in complex variables $u$, $v$ and the complex conjugate $\overline{v}$ such that both $f$ and the derivative $f_u$ have a weakly isolated singularity at the origin with $L_1$ as the link of the singularity of $f$ and $L_2$ as a sublink of the link of the singularity of $f_u$.