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Is there a classification of higher-degree generalisations of confocal conic sections?

The 1-parameter families of ellipses and hyperbolas with a given pair of points in the plane as their foci yield “orthogonal double-foliations” of the plane. That is, once the foci are specified, any ...
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Unboundedness of number of solutions of intersection of bivariate polynomial with graph of function from an o-minimal structure

I am trying to understand a construction sketched in the paper by Gwozdziewicz, Kurdyka and Parusinski in the Proceedings of the AMS 1999 (paper here) and I'd like to request some help. The ...
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