The local Poincar\'e problem for irreducible branches

Abstract

Let ${\mathcal F}$ be a germ of holomorphic foliation defined in a neighborhood of the origin of ${\mathbb C}^{2}$ that has a germ of irreducible holomorphic invariant curve $\gamma$. We provide a lower bound for the vanishing multiplicity of ${\mathcal F}$ at the origin in terms of the equisingularity class of $\gamma$. Moreover, we show that such a lower bound is sharp. Finally, we characterize the types of dicritical singularities for which the multiplicity of $\mathcal{F}$ can be bounded in terms of that of $\gamma$ and provide an explicit bound in this case.