The monodromy groups of isolated singularities of complete intersections (Q1824728)

This monograph deals with the important invariants of an isolated complete intersection singularity, namely the Milnor lattice H, the vanishing cycles and the monodromy group. The author also introduces relative invariants, i.e., the relative homology group \(\hat H,\) the set of thimbles and the relative monodromy. In order to calculate these invariants, an appropriate notion of a Dynkin diagram for an isolated complete intersection singularity is given and the author generalizes the methodes due to Gabrielov and Lazzari in order to compute these Dynkin diagrams. By using these methods, the Dynkin diagrams for large classes of two codimensional isolated complete intersection singularities are computed in the third chapter. This chapter contains also supplementary results about the extension of the strange duality. Based on the computations of Chapter 3, Chapter 4 deals with the main results. First the isolated intersection singularities with a definite, parabolic or hyperbolic intersection form are classified. Next it is shown that the monodromy groups and the vanishing cycles of all even- dimensional isolated complete intersection singularities except the hyperbolic singularities can be described in a purely arithmetic way. The monograph ends with Chapter 5 containing purely algebraic results about lattices which are necessary for the proofs of the main results.