Finite holomorphic pullbacks, Segre numbers, and generic L\^e numbers
We study numerical comparisons for hypersurface singularities under finite holomorphic maps between smooth germs. We retain Jelonek's topological proof of the Milnor-number inequality in the isolated case and give an algebraic proof using a cyclic factorization, Brieskorn modules, and trace. For a reduced divisor-theor...