Twisted Novikov homology of complex hypersurface complements

We study the twisted Novikov homology of the complement of a complex hypersurface in general position at infinity. We give a self‐contained topological proof of the vanishing (except possibly in the middle degree) of the twisted Novikov homology groups associated to positive cohomology classes of degree one defined on the complement.     

Hodge decomposition of Alexander invariants

Multivariable Alexander invariants of algebraic links calculated in terms of algebro-geometric invariants (polytopes and ideals of quasiadjunction). The relations with log-canonical divisors, the multiplier ideals and a semicontinuity property of polytopes of quasiadjunction are discussed. Received: 8 February 2001 / Revised version: 1 December 2001     

Non-archimedean analytic curves in the complements of hypersurface divisors

We study the degeneration dimension of non-archimedean analytic maps into the complement of hypersurface divisors of smooth projective varieties. We also show that there exist no non-archimedean analytic maps into where Di, 1?i?n, are hypersurfaces of degree at least 2 in general position and intersecting transversally. Moreover, we prove that there exist no non-archimedean analytic maps into when D₁, D₂ are generic plane curves with degD₁+degD₂?4.     

Alexander invariants of complex hyperplane arrangements

Let be an arrangement of complex hyperplanes. The fundamental group of the complement of is determined by a braid monodromy homomorphism, . Using the Gassner representation of the pure braid group, we find an explicit presentation for the Alexander invariant of . From this presentation, we obtain combinatorial lower bounds for the ranks of the Chen groups of . We also provide a combinatorial criterion for when these lower bounds are attained.

     

Fibred knots and twisted Alexander invariants

We study the twisted Alexander invariants of fibred knots. We establish necessary conditions on the twisted Alexander invariants for a knot to be fibred, and develop a practical method to compute the twisted Alexander invariants from the homotopy type of a monodromy. It is illustrated that the twisted Alexander invariants carry more information on fibredness than the classical Alexander invariants, even for knots with trivial Alexander polynomials.

     

Extracting invariants of isolated hypersurface singularities from their moduli algebras

We use classical invariant theory to construct invariants of complex graded Gorenstein algebras of finite vector space dimension. As a consequence, we obtain a way of extracting certain numerical invariants of quasi-homogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities from their moduli algebras, which extends an earlier result due to the first author. Furthermore, we conjecture that the invariants so constructed solve the biholomorphic equivalence problem in the homogeneous case. The conjecture is easily verified for binary quartics and ternary cubics. We show that it also holds for binary quintics and sextics. In the latter cases the proofs are much more involved. In particular, we provide a complete list of canonical forms of binary sextics, which is a result of independent interest.     

Fundamental groups of complements of plane curves and symplectic invariants

Introducing the notion of stabilized fundamental group for the complement of a branch curve in , we define effectively computable invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds that generalize those previously introduced by Moishezon and Teicher for complex projective surfaces. Moreover, we study the structure of these invariants and formulate conjectures supported by calculations on new examples.     

The Alexander polynomial and finite type 3-manifold invariants

Using elementary counting methods, we calculate a universal perturbative invariant (also known as the LMO invariant) of a 3-manifold M, satisfying , in terms of the Alexander polynomial of M. We show that +1 surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere induces an injective map from finite type invariants of integral homology 3-spheres to finite type invariants of knots. We also show that weight systems of degree 2m on knots, obtained by applying finite type 3m invariants of integral homology 3-spheres, lie in the algebra of Alexander-Conway weight systems, thus answering the questions raised in [Ga]. Received: 27 April 1998 / in final form: 8 August 1999     

Higher-order Alexander invariants and filtrations of the knot concordance group

We establish certain ``nontriviality' results for several filtrations of the smooth and topological knot concordance groups. First, as regards the n-solvable filtration of the topological knot concordance group, , defined by K. Orr, P. Teichner and the first author:

we refine the recent nontriviality results of Cochran and Teichner by including information on the Alexander modules. These results also extend those of C. Livingston and the second author. We exhibit similar structure in the closely related symmetric Grope filtration of . We also show that the Grope filtration of the smooth concordance group is nontrivial using examples that cannot be distinguished by the Ozsváth-Szabó -invariant nor by J. Rasmussen's -invariant. Our broader contribution is to establish, in ``the relative case', the key homological results whose analogues Cochran-Orr-Teichner established in ``the absolute case'.

We say two knots and are concordant modulo -solvability if . Our main result is that, for any knot whose classical Alexander polynomial has degree greater than 2, and for any positive integer , there exist infinitely many knots that are concordant to modulo -solvability, but are all distinct modulo -solvability. Moreover, the and share the same classical Seifert matrix and Alexander module as well as sharing the same higher-order Alexander modules and Seifert presentations up to order .

     

Generic hypersurface singularities

The problem considered here can be viewed as the analogue in higher dimensions of the one variable polynomial interpolation of Lagrange and Newton. Let x₁,...,x_r be closed points in general position in projective spacePn, then the linear subspaceV ofH⁰ (?ⁿ,O(d)) (the space of homogeneous polynomials of degreed on ?ⁿ) formed by those polynomials which are singular at eachx_i, is given by r(n + 1) linear equations in the coefficients, expressing the fact that the polynomial vanishes with its first derivatives at x₁,...,x_r. As such, the “expected” value for the dimension ofV is max(0,h⁰(O(d))?r(n+1)). We prove thatV has the “expected” dimension for d≥5 (theorem A). This theorem was first proven in [A] using a very complicated induction with many initial cases. Here we give a greatly simplified proof using techniques developed by the authors while treating the corresponding problem in lower degrees.     

On nonisolated hypersurface singularities

We study germs of holomorphic functions whose singular sets are hypersurfaces with isolated singularity in the cases where the transversal singularity is A ₁. For these singularities, we completely describe the homotopy structure of the Milnor fibers. Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 59, Algebra and Geometry, 2008.     

Free deformations of hypersurface singularities

The article is devoted to the study of the classification problem for Saito free divisors making use of the deformation theory of varieties. In particular, in the quasihomogeneous case, we describe an approach for computation of free deformations of quasicones over quasismooth varieties based on properties of deformations of varieties with $ {\mathbb{G}_m} $ -action. We also discuss some applications including the problem of compactification of modular spaces and computation of free deformations for certain simple, unimodal, and unimodular singularities.     

Defect of a nodal hypersurface

In this note we give formulas for the Hodge numbers of a nodal hypersurface in a smooth complex projective fourfold. Received: 10 May 2000 / Revised version: 7 November 2000     

A hypersurface in -jets

We give an example of a hypersurface in through whose stability group at is determined by -jets, but not by jets of any lesser order. We also examine some of the properties which the stability group of this infinite type hypersurface shares with the -sphere in .

     

Equivalences between isolated hypersurface singularities

Research by this author supported in part by N.S.F. Grant No. DMS-84114477     

A general theory of hypersurface potentials

Summary A general theory of hypersurface potentials in n-dimensional space is proposed. Not only smooth densities but also potentials generated either by L ¹ functions or by measures are considered.     

The motive of a Weil hypersurface

We study a special class of hypersurfaces V_p in a projective space over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. We compute the motive of V_p in terms of the motives of the curves.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 555–560, November, 1972.The author wishes to express his deep gratitude to Yu. I. Manin under whose direction this paper was prepared.     

Maximal multihomogeneity of algebraic hypersurface singularities

From the degree zero part of the logarithmic vector fields along analgebraic hypersurface singularity we identify the maximal multihomogeneity of a defining equation in form of a maximal algebraic torus in the embedded automorphism group. We show that all such maximal tori are conjugate and in one–to–one correspondence to maximal tori in the linear jet of the embedded automorphism group. These results are motivated by Kyoji Saito’s characterization of quasihomogeneity for isolated hypersurface singularities [Saito in Invent. Math. 14, 123–142 (1971)] and extend previous work with Granger and Schulze [Compos. Math. 142(3), 765–778 (2006), Theorem 5.4] and of Hauser and Müller [Nagoya Math. J. 113, 181–186 (1989), Theorem 4].