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Abstract

In this short note, we investigate the topology of complex polynomials \(f(x, y)\) in two variables. The description of the topology of the corresponding level curves \(C_t : f(x, y) = t\) is directly related to the vanishing of the leading coefficients cj (t) of the discriminant of the polynomial \(f(x, y) − t\), regarded as polynomials in \(t\).