Determinantal singularities

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-31925-9_2MaRDI QIDQ6608480zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anne Frühbis-Krüger, Matthias Zach

Publication date 20 September 2024

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31925-9_2

Artin component Betti numbers boundary singularities classification of simple singularities Cohen-Macaulay singularities of codimension 2 complete intersections deformations determinantal hypersurfaces determinantal singularities discriminants of matrices essential smoothings essentially isolated determinantal singularities essentially nonsingular points finite determinacy generic determinantal varieties Gorenstein singularities of codimension 3 logarithmic vector fields Milnor fiber Milnor number Newton polyhedra Pfaffian ideals polar varieties quasihomogeneous singularities rank stratification rational surface singularities resolution of singularities semi-universal deformations singularities of square matrices skew symmetric matrices Tyurina number Tyurina transformation unfoldings and equivalence of matrices vanishing homology versal unfoldings Whitney stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

Review text

This chapter of the book is devoted to the study of determinantal singularities of analytic spaces with an emphasis on deformation theory, elementary methods of classification and related computational methods with applications. It consists of five parts, a list of 114 references on relevant articles and 18 classification tables of simple singularities of various kinds and types, most of which were obtained by the authors in a series of earlier works (see, e.g., [\textit{A. Frühbis-Krüger}, Commun. Algebra 27, No. 8, 3993--4013 (1999; Zbl 0963.14011); \textit{A. Frühbis-Krüger} and \textit{A. Neumer}, Commun. Algebra 38, No. 2, 454--495 (2010; Zbl 1193.32015); \textit{M. Zach}, Topology of isolated determinantal singularities. (PhD Thesis) (2017)]).\N\NThe authors begin with preliminary materials and a collection of facts known to them concerning singularities of matrices and determinantal varieties. Among other things they discuss the basic properties of determinantal ideals and their free resolutions, deformations of determinantal singularities, the concepts of unfoldings and equivalence of matrices, finite determinacy, versality, etc. Then the theory of essentially isolated determinantal singularities is considered in detail including the Tyurina transformation for such singularities and their deformations, possible generalizations, modifications and so on (see [\textit{A. Frühbis-Krüger}, Topology Appl. 234, 375--396 (2018; Zbl 1405.32038)]). In the next two parts, they discuss the classification problem of simple complete intersections, Cohen-Macaulay singularities of codimension 2, Gorenstein singularities of codimension 3, rational surface singularities, singularities of square matrices, and some other types. The last part is concerned to analysis of the topology of essential smoothings of essentially isolated determinantal singularities, explicit constructions of smoothings, some special properties of determinantal hypersurfaces, isolated Cohen-Macaulay singularities of codimension 2 and some other particular cases and applications, including properties of hypersurfaces with nonisolated singularities, bouquet decompositions for essential smoothings (see [\textit{M. Zach}, J. Singul. 22, 190--204 (2020; Zbl 1451.14007)]), formulas for the vanishing Euler characteristic and complex links of essential smoothings, etc.\N\NIt should be especially noted that the exposition is illustrated with 12 excellent colour pictures with interesting comments and useful remarks.\N\NFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1545.32001].

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