A sharp lower bound for the geometric genus and Zariski multiplicity question (Q1668461)

The main theorem of this paper states that the geometric genus of a hypersurface singularity in $\mathbb C^n$ of multiplicity $\nu$ is bounded from below by $\binom{\nu}{n}$, the geometric genus of homogeneous isolated singularity of the same multiplicity. Regarding Zariski's multiplicity question it is shown that topologically equivalent hypersurface singularities with Milnor number at most $2^n-1$ have the same multiplicity, namely $2$.