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CRITICAL POINTS OF FUNCTIONS ON SINGULAR SPACES 9 9 9 David B. Massey 1 g u Abstract. We compare and contrast various notions of the “critical locus” of a complex analytic function on a singular space. After choosing a topological variant as our primary notion of the critical locus, we justify our A choice by generalizing Lˆe and Saito’s result that constant Milnor number implies that Thom’s af condition is 9 satisfied. 1 ] G A . §0. Introduction. h t a n+1 n+1 Let U be an open subset of C , let z := (z , z , . . . , z ) be coordinates for C , and suppose that 0 1 n m ˜ ˜ ˜ [ f : U → C is an analytic function. Then, all conceivable definitions of the critical locus, Σf , of f agree: ˜ one can consider the points, x, where the derivative vanishes, i.e., d f = 0, or one can consider the points, x 2 ˜ ˜ ˜ 1 x, where the Taylor series of f at x has no linear term, i.e., f − f (x) ∈ mU ,x (where mU ,x is the maximal v ˜ 4 ideal in the coordinate ring of U at x), or one can consider th