Merle, Michel Variétés polaires, stratifications de Whitney et classes de Chern des espaces analytiques complexes [d’après Lê-Teissier]. (French) Zbl 0551.32011 Sémin. Bourbaki, 35e année, Vol. 1980/81, Exp. No. 600, Astérisque 105-106, 65-78 (1983). This is a survey article on Lê-Teissier results on local polar varieties, Chern classes and Whitney stratifications [Lê Dũng Tráng and B. Teissier, Ann. Math. (2) 114, 457–491 (1981; Zbl 0488.32004) and in Singularities, Summer Inst., Arcata/Calif. 1981, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 40, Part 2, 65–103 (1983; Zbl 0532.32003)].For the entire collection see [Zbl 0514.00009]. Reviewer: Daniel Barlet (Vandœuvre-les-Nancy) Cited in 5 Documents MSC: 32Sxx Complex singularities 32S60 Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) 32S45 Modifications; resolution of singularities (complex-analytic aspects) 32C15 Complex spaces 32S05 Local complex singularities Keywords:equimultiplicity; local polar varieties; Chern classes; Whitney stratifications Citations:Zbl 0514.00009; Zbl 0488.32004; Zbl 0532.32003 PDFBibTeX XML Full Text: Numdam EuDML