Topological disconnection of real analytic spaces (Q1306485)

If \(M \) is a reduced real analytic coherent space, the authors denote by \(\Sigma (M)\) the set of points for which a suitable neighbourhood \(U\) may be disconnected if one removes an analytic subset \(T\) of codimension at least 2 and subsequently investigate its structure. Thus, they show that \(\Sigma (M)\) is a semianalytic set. Moreover, the points of \(\Sigma (M)\) where \(M\) is locally irreducible come from the singular points of the normalization of \(M\). An interesting situation where one can eliminate \(\Sigma (M)\) by modifying the space \(M\) as little as possible (by means of blowing-ups with high codimensional centers) is shown and an example shows that in general this procedure does not work.