Determinantal singularities and Newton polyhedra (Q2377579)

A determinantal set is an analytic set in \(\mathbb C^m\) defined by the vanishing locus of the maximal minors of a holomorphic \(n\times k\) matrix, provided that this set has dimension \(m-| n-k| +1\). In this paper, the author computes the multiplicity of a determinantal set (Theorem 1.9), the Milnor number of a function on it (Theorem 1.12) and the Poincaré-Hopf index of a covector field on it (Theorem 1.15) in terms of the Newton polyhedra. These results are corollaries of Theorems 3.5 and 3.19, where the same invariants are computed for a more general class of sets, that is, for resultantal sets. The approach to this results is geometrical. The author constructs a toric resolution of singularities of a resultantal set, which turns Theorems 3.5 and 3.19 into obvious generalizations of similar facts about complete intersections.