Index of singularities of real vector fields on singular hypersurfaces

DOI10.5427/JSING.2014.9JMaRDI QIDQ2879068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavao Mardešić

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Journal of Singularities (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1781

zbMATH Keywords

algebraically isolated singularitieshamiltonian vector fieldshessianPoincaré-Hopf index, GSV-index of real vector fieldsreal hypersurfacessignature of bilinear forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of holomorphic vector fields and foliations (32S65) Topological properties of mappings on manifolds (58K15) Singularities of vector fields, topological aspects (58K45) Topological invariants on manifolds (58K65)

Abstract: G'omez-Mont, Seade and Verjovsky introduced an index, now called GSV-index, generalizing the Poincar'e-Hopf index to complex vector fields tangent to singular hypersurfaces. The GSV-index extends to the real case. This is a survey paper on the joint research with G'omez-Mont and Giraldo about calculating the GSV-index $In{d}_{V_{p}m,0}(X)$ of a real vector field $X$ tangent to a singular hypersurface $V=f^{-1}(0)$. The index $In{d}_{V_{pm,0}}(X)$ is calculated as a combination of several terms. Each term is given as a signature of some bilinear form on a local algebra associated to $f$ and $X$. Main ingredients in the proof are G'omez-Mont's formula for calculating the GSV-index on singular complex hypersurfaces and the formula of Eisenbud, Levine and Khimshiashvili for calculating the Poincar'e-Hopf index of a singularity of a real vector field in $R^{n+1}$

Review text

Let \(f : (\mathbb R^{n+1}, 0) \rightarrow (\mathbb R, 0)\) be a germ of analytic function with an algebraically isolated singularity at the origin and \(V\) an analytic vector field in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) having at most an algebraically isolated singularity at the origin as well. Assume that \(V\) is tangent to \(X = f^{-1}(0)\) at all the non-singular points, that is, \(V(f) = hf\) for some analytic function \(h.\) In other words, \(V\) is a logarithmic vector field along \(X\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper under review contains a didactic survey of earlier joint results of the author with collaborators concerning the computation of the GSV-index \(\text{Ind}_{X_\pm,0}(V)\) (see [\textit{X. Gómez-Mont} and \textit{P. Mardešić}, Ann. Inst. Fourier 47, No. 5, 1523--1539 (1997; Zbl 0891.32013)], [\textit{L. Giraldo} et al., Contemp. Math. 240, 175--182 (1999; Zbl 1113.32305)], etc.). In particular, it turns out that the index can be calculated as a combination of several terms each of which is determined by signature of certain bilinear form on a local algebra associated with the germ \(f\) and the vector field \(V.\) In conclusion, some open problems are briefly discussed.

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