Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
The 2-jet of a Σ3 map-germ f:(3, 0) → (3, 0) determines a net of quadratic maps from 3 to 3; for nets of general type this jet is sufficient for equivalence. The classification of such nets involves a single parameter c. It is shown in [7], also in [3], that the versai unfolding of f is topologically trivial over the parameter space. However, there are 4 connected components of this space of nets. The main object of this paper is to show that the corresponding unfolded maps are of different topological types.