Symplectic singularities (Q1977006)

The author introduces symplectic singularities and classifies symplectic singularities of the simplest type. A normal variety is said to have symplectic singularities if its smooth part carries a closed symplectic form, whose pull back to any resolution extends to a global holomorphic 2-form. The relation between symplectic singularities and symplectic complex (hyperKähler) manifolds is analogous to that between rational Gorenstein singularities and Calabi-Yau manifolds. The main theorem states that a germ of an isolated singularity with a smooth projective tangent cone is symplectic if and only if it is analytically isomorphic to the germ \((\overline{\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}, 0)\), where \(\overline{\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}= {\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}\cup\{0\}\) is the closure of a smallest non-zero nilpotent orbit \({\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}\) for the adjoint action of a simple complex Lie algebra. As the next step in the classification of symplectic singularities the author proposes isolated singularities with trivial local fundamental group.