Abstract: | It is well known that the number of isolated singular points of a hypersurface of degree d in ℂPm does not exceed the Arnol’d number Am(d), which is defined in combinatorial terms. In the paper it is proved that if b
m−1
±
(d) are the inertia indices of the intersection form of a nonsingular hypersurface of degree d in ℂPm, then the inequality Am(d)<min{b
m−1
+
(d), b
m−1
−
(d)} holds if and only if (m−5)(d−2)≥18 and (m,d)≠(7,12). The table of the Arnol’d numbers for 3≤m≤14, 3≤d≤17 and for 3≤m≤14,
d=18, 19 is given. Bibliography: 6 titles.
Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 231, 1995, pp. 180–190.
Translated by O. A. Ivanov and N. Yu. Netsvetev. |