AIMS Mathematics 2025, 10(12): 30594-30622
Published: 26 December 2025
We study pairs which consist of regular surfaces endowed with a distinguished boundary given by ( : edge, corner, cusp). First, we give an explicit description of the logarithmic vector fields tangent to , . In particular, the five fields generate . This yields a concrete Kodaira–Spencer calculus and a relative -determinacy theorem (with a single parabolic exception). Then, we classify submersions and obtain normal forms and mini versal unfoldings for submersion germs in codimension , with respect to the -equivalence relation. Second, for height functions we obtain sharp linear conditions on that characterize the –contact along each boundary type. In particular, in the cuspidal case, the transition is governed by singular torsion. The resulting direction discriminant corresponds, under the direction–parameter normalization, to a hyperplane arrangement of linear discriminant loci in the mini versal parameter spaces. Both the ambient discriminant and the boundary contact discriminants are invariant under – –equivalence.