The link of a finitely determined map germ from \(R^{2}\) to \(R^{2}\) (Q616645)

Let \(f:({\mathbb R}^2,0)\to ({\mathbb R}^2,0)\) be a real-analytic finitely determined map germ. The link of \(f\) is defined by the intersection of the image of \(f\) in a neighborhood of \(0\) with a sufficiently small sphere centered at \(0\). The authors associate an adapted version of Gauss words with the link of \(f\), and they show that two finitely determined map germs are topologically equivalent if and only if they have equivalent Gauss words. Various classification results are derived.