Obstructions and Hypersurface Sections (Minimally Elliptic Singularities) (Q4038467)

The authors extend their former results [Compos. Math. 77, No. 3, 233-258 (1991; Zbl 0728.14034)] to the minimally elliptic case. They classify the possible hyperplane sections; the resulting elliptic partition curves are exactly the images of (rational) partition curves under a generic projection into a space of one dimension less. The main result is that for a minimally elliptic surface singularity \(X\) of embedding dimension \(n+1\geq 5\) the number of generators of the \({\mathcal O}_ X\)-module \(T^ 2_ X\) is \((n+1)(n-4)/2\), and for the subclass of Kodaira singularities this is also the dimension of \(T^ 2_ X\).