106 research outputs found

    Radial index and Euler obstruction of a 1-form on a singular variety

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    A notion of the radial index of an isolated singular point of a 1-form on a singular (real or complex) variety is discussed. For the differential of a function it is related to the Euler characteristic of the Milnor fibre of the function. A connection between the radial index and the local Euler obstruction of a 1-form is described. This gives an expression for the local Euler obstruction of the differential of a function in terms of Euler characteristics of some Milnor fibres

    On the arc filtration for the singularities of Arnold's lists

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    In a previous paper, the authors introduced a filtration on the ring OV,0{\cal O}_{V,0} of germs of functions on a germ (V,0)(V,0) of a complex analytic variety defined by arcs on the singularity and called the arc filtration. The Poincar\'e series of this filtration were computed for simple surface singularities in the 3-space. Here they are computed for surface singularities from Arnold's lists including uni- and bimodular ones. The classification of the unimodular singularities by these Poincar\'e series turns out to be in accordance with their hierarchy defined by E. Brieskorn using the adjacency relations. Besides that we give a general formula for the Poincar\'e series of the arc filtration for isolated surface singularities which are stabilizations of plane curve ones

    Index of a singular point of a vector field or of a 1-form on an orbifold

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    Indices of singular points of a vector field or of a 1-form on a smooth manifold are closely related with the Euler characteristic through the classical Poincar\'e--Hopf theorem. Generalized Euler characteristics (additive topological invariants of spaces with some additional structures) are sometimes related with corresponding analogues of indices of singular points. Earlier there was defined a notion of the universal Euler characteristic of an orbifold. It takes values in a ring R, as an abelian group freely generated by the generators, corresponding to the isomorphism classes of finite groups. Here we define the universal index of an isolated singular point of a vector field or of a 1-form on an orbifold as an element of the ring R. For this index, an analogue of the Poincar\'e-Hopf theorem holds

    Verlinde Algebras and the Intersection Form on Vanishing Cycles

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    We prove Zuber's conjecture establishing connections of the fusion rules of the su(N)ksu(N)_k WZW model of conformal field theory and the intersection form on vanishing cycles of the associated fusion potential.Comment: latex fil

    Integration with respect to Euler characteristic over the projectivization of the space of functions and the Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity

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    We discuss a notion of integration with respect to the Euler characteristic in the projectivization \P{\cal O}_{\C^n,0} of the ring {\cal O}_{\C^n,0} of germs of functions on CnC^n and show that the Alexander polynomial and the zeta-function of a plane curve singularity can be expressed as certain integrals over \P{\cal O}_{\C^2,0} with respect to the Euler characteristic

    On Poincare series of filtrations on equivariant functions of two variables

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    Let a finite group GG act on the complex plane (C2,0)({\Bbb C}^2, 0). We consider multi-index filtrations on the spaces of germs of holomorphic functions of two variables equivariant with respect to 1-dimensional representations of the group GG defined by components of a modification of the complex plane C2{\Bbb C}^2 at the origin or by branches of a GG-invariant plane curve singularity (C,0)⊂(C2,0)(C,0)\subset({\Bbb C}^2,0). We give formulae for the Poincare series of these filtrations. In particular, this gives a new method to obtain the Poincare series of analogous filtrations on the rings of germs of functions on quotient surface singularities

    On Poincar\'e series of filtrations

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    In this survey one discusses the notion of the Poincar\'e series of multi-index filtrations, an alternative approach to the definition, a method of computation of the Poincar\'e series based on the notion of integration with respect to the Euler characteristic (or rather on an infinite-dimensional version of it), generalizations of the notion of the multi-variable Poincar\'e series based on the notion of the motivic integration, and relations of the latter ones with some zeta functions over finite fields and with generating series of Heegaard-Floer homologies of algebraic links

    The Poincare series of divisorial valuations in the plane defines the topology of the set of divisors

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    To a plane curve singularity one associates a multi-index filtration on the ring of germs of functions of two variables defined by the orders of a function on irreducible components of the curve. The Poincare series of this filtration turnes out to coincide with the Alexander polynomial of the curve germ. For a finite set of divisorial valuations on the ring corresponding to some components of the exceptional divisor of a modification of the plane, in a previous paper there was obtained a formula for the Poincare series of the corresponding multi-index filtration similar to the one associated to plane germs. Here we show that the Poincare series of a set of divisorial valuations on the ring of germs of functions of two variables defines "the topology of the set of the divisors" in the sense that it defines the minimal resolution of this set up to combinatorial equivalence. For the plane curve singularity case, we also give a somewhat simpler proof of the statement by Yamamoto which proves that the Alexander polynomial is equivalent to the embedded topology

    The Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity via the ring of functions on it

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    We prove two formulae which express the Alexander polynomial ΔC\Delta^C of several variables of a plane curve singularity CC in terms of the ring OC{\cal O}_{C} of germs of analytic functions on the curve. One of them expresses ΔC\Delta^C in terms of dimensions of some factors corresponding to a (multi-indexed) filtration on the ring OC{\cal O}_{C}. The other one gives the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial ΔC\Delta^C as Euler characteristics of some explicitly described spaces (complements to arrangements of projective hyperplanes). The final version of this article will be published in the Duke Mathematical Journal

    The Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity and the ring of functions on it

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    We give two formulae which express the Alexander polynomial ΔC\Delta^C of several variables of a plane curve singularity CC in terms of the ring OC{\cal O}_{C} of germs of analytic functions on the curve. One of them expresses ΔC\Delta^C in terms of dimensions of some factorspaces corresponding to a (multi-indexed) filtration on the ring OC{\cal O}_{C}. The other one gives the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial ΔC\Delta^C as Euler characteristics of some explicitly described spaces (complements to arrangements of projective hyperplanes).Comment: 5 pages, LaTe
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