Differential forms and hypersurface singularities (Q3973657)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0723.00028.] This paper studies isolated hypersurface singularities \((X,O)\) in \((C^ n,O)\), especially the cohomology of the complement \(B_{\epsilon} \setminus X\) of a good representative \(X\) in a small open ball \(B_{\epsilon}\). This cohomology can be identified essentially to the eigenspace in \(H^{n-1}(F)\) corresponding to the eigenvalue 1 of the algebraic monodromy operator \(T\) acting (geometrically) on the Milnor fibre \(F\) of \((X,O)\). The author uses meromorphic differential forms on \(B_{\epsilon}\), having poles along \(X\). This complex of meromorphic forms has a natural polar filtration, given by the order of the poles along \(X\). This filtration gives rise to a spectral sequence converging to \(H^{*}(B_{\epsilon})\). In the paper various properties of the \(E_ 2\) and \(E_ 3\)-terms of this spectral sequence are discussed and conditions are given for degeneracy at these stages. It was already known, that degeneration at \(E_ 2\) occurs iff \(\mu = \tau\). The properties of the \(E_ 3\) terms are more complicated to state. In the final sections the author discusses several examples: e.g. curve singularities, \(T_{p,q,r}\) - singularities as well as their double suspensions. In these cases more explicit statements are made about type \(E_ 3\)-terms. The degeneration conditions are important for some applications to singularities with a 1-dimensional singular set and give a better understanding of the dependence of the Betti numbers of hypersurfaces in \(P^ n\) on the position of isolated singular points.