Some remarks on indices of holomorphic vector fields (Q1385197)

Let \(v\) be a holomorphic vector field defined on a neighbourhood of \(0\in \mathbb{C}^2\) and having an isolated singularity there. The author compares three residue-type indices for the singularity \((v,0)\). The first is the Baum-Bott index \(BB(v,0)\) defined in [\textit{P. F. Baum} and \textit{R. Bott}, Essays Topol. Relat. Top., Mém. dédiés à Georges de Rham, 29-47 (1970; Zbl 0193.52201)]. The second is an index \(CS(v,S,0)\) defined in terms of a separatrix \(S\) for \(v\) at 0 by \textit{C. Camacho} and \textit{P. Sad} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 115, 579-595 (1982; Zbl 0503.32007)] which represents in a sense the intersection index of the trajectories of \(v\) with \(S\). More recently, \textit{X. Gomez-Mont}, \textit{J. Seade} and \textit{A. Verjovsky} [Math. Ann. 291, No. 4, 737-751 (1991; Zbl 0739.32031)] have defined a third index \(GSV(v,S,0)\) which is a sort of Poincaré-Hopf index for the restriction of \(v\) to \(S\). The main theorem of this paper states that, when \((v,0)\) is a generalised curve, that is a nondicritical singularity whose resolution does not contain saddle-nodes, and \(S\) is the union of all separatrices of \(v\) at 0, then \(BB(v,0)=CS(v,S,0)\), while \(GSV (v,S,0)=0\). The proof is obtained by desingularisation and analysis of the variation of the indices under blow-ups.