Weierstrass weight of Gorenstein singularities with one or two branches

We obtain formulas for the Weierstrass weight of singularities with either one or two branches on a Gorenstein curve in characteristic zero. These formulas generalize results of C. Widland in the cases of simple cusps and ordinary nodes. The formulas arise from a study of the semigroup of values of such a singularity and the relation between this semigroup and a basis for the dualizing differentials on the curve adapted to the singular point. Partially supported by a CNPq grant Partially supported by NSF grant INT-9101337     

Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams of some space curve singularities

The so called wedge singularities, that consist of a plane curve singularity C and a line transverse to the plane of C, are the simplest space curve singularities which are not a complete intersection. We show that for every wedge singularity X there is an isolated complete intersection singularity Y related to X and we describe the discriminant of X in terms of Y. We also show that the monodromy group of X corresponds to the one of Y.Furthermore, we calculate Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams for some space curve singularities of multiplicity three. To this end we apply real-morsification-techniques.     

Resolving singularities with Cartan’s prolongation

A standard method for resolving a plane curve singularity is the method of blow-up. We describe a less-known alternative method which we call prolongation, in honor of Cartan’s work in this direction. This method is known to algebraic geometers as Nash blow-up. With each application of prolongation the dimension of the ambient space containing the new “prolonged” singularity increases by one. The new singularity is tangent to a canonical plane field on the ambient space. Our main result asserts that the two methods, blow-up and prolongation, yield the same resolution for unibranched singularities. The primary difficulties encountered are around understanding the prolongation analogues of the exceptional divisors from blow-up. These analogues are called critical curves. Most of the critical curves are abnormal extremals in the sense of optimal control theory as it applies to rank 2 distributions (2 controls). Dedicated to V. I. Arnol’d and his creative force     

Monodromy of real isolated singularities

Complex conjugation on complex space permutes the level sets of a real polynomial function and induces involutions on level sets corresponding to real values. For isolated complex hypersurface singularities with real defining equation we show the existence of a monodromy vector field such that complex conjugation intertwines the local monodromy diffeomorphism with its inverse. In particular, it follows that the geometric monodromy is the composition of the involution induced by complex conjugation and another involution. This topological property holds for all isolated complex plane curve singularities. Using real morsifications, we compute the action of complex conjugation and of the other involution on the Milnor fiber of real plane curve singularities.     

Limits of Puiseux Expansions and Parametric Deformations of Plane Curve Singularities

We consider a family of parametrizations of unibranched plane curve singularities. Each member of the family can be expressed via the Puiseux expansion. Studying the limits of suitably renormalized coefficients of the Puiseux expansions, we obtain in some cases obstructions for a possible adjacency of unibranched plane curve singularities.

Furthermore, we show that the coefficients of the Puiseux expansion are not generic (in a precisely defined sense) as functions of the coefficients of parametrization of the singularity.     

Generating sequences and Poincaré series for a finite set of plane divisorial valuations

Let V be a finite set of divisorial valuations centered at a 2-dimensional regular local ring R. In this paper we study its structure by means of the semigroup of values, SV, and the multi-index graded algebra defined by V, grVR. We prove that SV is finitely generated and we compute its minimal set of generators following the study of reduced curve singularities. Moreover, we prove a unique decomposition theorem for the elements of the semigroup. The comparison between valuations in V, the approximation of a reduced plane curve singularity C by families of sets V(k) of divisorial valuations, and the relationship between the value semigroup of C and the semigroups of the sets V(k), allow us to obtain the (finite) minimal generating sequences for C as well as for V.We also analyze the structure of the homogeneous components of grVR. The study of their dimensions allows us to relate the Poincaré series for V and for a general curve C of V. Since the last series coincides with the Alexander polynomial of the singularity, we can deduce a formula of A'Campo type for the Poincaré series of V. Moreover, the Poincaré series of C could be seen as the limit of the series of V(k), k?0.     

Generic singularities of implicit systems of first order differential equations on the plane

For the implicit systems of first order ordinary differential equations on the plane there is presented the complete local classification of generic singularities of family of its phase curves up to smooth orbital equivalence. Besides the well-known singularities of generic vector fields on the plane and the singularities described by a generic first order implicit differential equations, there exists only one generic singularity described by the implicit first order equation supplied by Whitney umbrella surface generically embedded to the space of directions on the plane.     

Boundary singularities with a simple decomposition

We define the decomposition of a boundary singularity as a pair (a singularity in the ambient space together with a singularity of the restriction to the boundary). We prove that the Lagrange transform is an involution on the set of boundary singularities that interchanges the singularities that occur in the decomposition of a boundary singularity. We classify the boundary singularities for which both of these singularities are simple. Bibliography: 8 titles.Translated fromTrudy Seminara imeni I. G. Petrovskogo, No. 15, pp. 55–69, 1991.     

Self-dual modules over local rings of curve singularities

Let C be a reduced curve singularity. C is called of finite self-dual type if there exist only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable, self-dual, torsion-free modules over the local ring of C. In this paper it is shown that the singularities of finite self-dual type are those which dominate a simple plane singularity.     

A note on a question of Dimca and Greuel

In this note, we give a positive answer to a question of Dimca and Greuel about the quotient between the Milnor and Tjurina numbers of an isolated plane curve singularity in the cases of one Puiseux pair and semi-quasi-homogeneous singularities.     

Murphy’s law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved deformation spaces

We consider the question: “How bad can the deformation space of an object be?” The answer seems to be: “Unless there is some a priori reason otherwise, the deformation space may be as bad as possible.” We show this for a number of important moduli spaces. More precisely, every singularity of finite type over ? (up to smooth parameters) appears on: the Hilbert scheme of curves in projective space; and the moduli spaces of smooth projective general-type surfaces (or higher-dimensional varieties), plane curves with nodes and cusps, stable sheaves, isolated threefold singularities, and more. The objects themselves are not pathological, and are in fact as nice as can be: the curves are smooth, the surfaces are automorphism-free and have very ample canonical bundle, the stable sheaves are torsion-free of rank 1, the singularities are normal and Cohen-Macaulay, etc. This justifies Mumford’s philosophy that even moduli spaces of well-behaved objects should be arbitrarily bad unless there is an a priori reason otherwise. Thus one can construct a smooth curve in projective space whose deformation space has any given number of components, each with any given singularity type, with any given non-reduced behavior. Similarly one can give a surface over $\mathbb{F}_{p}We consider the question: “How bad can the deformation space of an object be?” The answer seems to be: “Unless there is some a priori reason otherwise, the deformation space may be as bad as possible.” We show this for a number of important moduli spaces. More precisely, every singularity of finite type over ℤ (up to smooth parameters) appears on: the Hilbert scheme of curves in projective space; and the moduli spaces of smooth projective general-type surfaces (or higher-dimensional varieties), plane curves with nodes and cusps, stable sheaves, isolated threefold singularities, and more. The objects themselves are not pathological, and are in fact as nice as can be: the curves are smooth, the surfaces are automorphism-free and have very ample canonical bundle, the stable sheaves are torsion-free of rank 1, the singularities are normal and Cohen-Macaulay, etc. This justifies Mumford’s philosophy that even moduli spaces of well-behaved objects should be arbitrarily bad unless there is an a priori reason otherwise. Thus one can construct a smooth curve in projective space whose deformation space has any given number of components, each with any given singularity type, with any given non-reduced behavior. Similarly one can give a surface over that lifts to ℤ/p⁷ but not ℤ/p⁸. (Of course the results hold in the holomorphic category as well.) It is usually difficult to compute deformation spaces directly from obstruction theories. We circumvent this by relating them to more tractable deformation spaces via smooth morphisms. The essential starting point is Mn?v’s universality theorem. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 14B12, 14C05, 14J10, 14H50, 14B07, 14N20, 14D22, 14B05     

Rational ODEs with Movable Algebraic Singularities

A class of second-order rational ordinary differential equations, admitting certain families of formal algebraic series solutions, is considered. For all solutions of these equations, it is shown that any movable singularity that can be reached by analytic continuation along a finite-length curve is an algebraic branch point. The existence of these formal series expansions is straightforward to determine for any given equation in the class considered. We apply the theorem to a family of equations, admitting different kinds of algebraic singularities. As a further application we recover the known fact for generic values of parameters that the only movable singularities of solutions of the Painlevé equations   P_II – P   _VI   are poles.     

Algebraic Levi-Flat Hypervarieties in Complex Projective Space

We study singular real-analytic Levi-flat hypersurfaces in complex projective space. We define the rank of an algebraic Levi-flat hypersurface and study the connections between rank, degree, and the type and size of the singularity. In particular, we study degenerate singularities of algebraic Levi-flat hypersurfaces. We then give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Levi-flat hypersurface to be a pullback of a real-analytic curve in ℂ via a meromorphic function. Among other examples, we construct a nonalgebraic semianalytic Levi-flat hypersurface with compact leaves that is a perturbation of an algebraic Levi-flat variety.     

An Algorithm for Computing the Singularity of the Generic Germ of a Pencil of Plane Curves

Abstract

We give an algorithm that describes the singularity of all but finitely-many germs in a pencil generated by two arbitrary germs of plane curve.     

On singularity confinement for the pentagram map

The pentagram map, introduced by R. Schwartz, is a birational map on the configuration space of polygons in the projective plane. We study the singularities of the iterates of the pentagram map. We show that a “typical” singularity disappears after a finite number of iterations, a confinement phenomenon first discovered by Schwartz. We provide a method to bypass such a singular patch by directly constructing the first subsequent iterate that is well-defined on the singular locus under consideration. The key ingredient of this construction is the notion of a decorated (twisted) polygon, and the extension of the pentagram map to the corresponding decorated configuration space.     

P~3中3次曲面与平面4次曲线间的关系

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