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Bounds for the milnor number of a hypersurface singularity

I am having a hard time in finding an upper bound in terms of the degree and the dimension for the Milnor number of an isolated hypersurface singularity. I am mostly interested in …
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A k-component link defines a map T^k --> Conf_k S^3. Does the homotopy type capture Milnor’s invariants?

A k-component link defines a map T^k --> Conf_k S^3. Does the homotopy type of this map capture the Milnor invariants? Some special cases: k=2, no, it's null homologous, but …