Milnor's \({\bar \mu}\)-invariant and 2-height of reducible plane curves (Q1085835)

The author considers links associated with polynomials functions \(f: {\mathbb{C}}^ 2\to {\mathbb{C}}\) of a particular type. He calculates both Milnor's \({\bar \mu}\)-invariant and the 2-height invariant for these links. He also demonstrates that if such a link has infinite 2-height, then the local monodromy of f has infinite order.