The thick-thin decomposition and the bilipschitz classification of normal surface singularities (Q2015962): Difference between revisions

A singularity is topologically conical, but there are obstructions for metrical conicalness. This paper makes a profound study of them and in the surface case turns it into a complete bilipschitz classification. A germ is divided in \textit{thick} and \textit{thin} parts. The thick part is essentially metrically conical and the thin part carries all the ``non-trivial'' bilipschitz geometry. A thick zone is Seifert fibred. A thin zone is a graph manifold, which fibres over \(S^1\). Each thin zone is further decomposed into its JSJ decomposition. Then the bilipschitz type is characterised by the decomposition in Seifert fibred manifolds, the homotopy class of the foliation by fibres of the fibration of each thin zone, and a rational weight for each piece. These data can be given by adding the rational weights to a suitable decorated resolution graph. Various examples are computed.