(1) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY 10012, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;(3) Department of mathematics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Abstract:
We prove that any finite set of n-dimensional isolated algebraic singularities can be afforded on a simply connected projective variety. The first author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-01591 and the third author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-03693