%0 Journal Article %T Topology of polar weighted homogeneous hypersurfaces %A Mutsuo Oka %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X Polar weighted homogeneous polynomials are the class of special polynomials of real variables $x_i,y_i, i=1,..., n$ with $z_i=x_i+\sqrt{-1} y_i$, which enjoys a "polar action". In many aspects, their behavior looks like that of complex weighted homogeneous polynomials. We study basic properties of hypersurfaces which are defined by polar weighted homogeneous polynomials. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3708v1