Differential invariants of embeddings of manifolds in complex spaces (Q4400901)

The paper concerns differential invariants of the pair \((V,W)\), where \(V\) is a reduced complex space and \(W\) its complex submanifold. By \(C(V,W)\) we denote the normal cone of \(W\) in \(V\) and by \(P(V,W)\) its projectivization. The authors prove that the Segre classes of the components of \(C(V,W)\) (defined by passing to the corresponding components of \(P(V,W)\)) are, up to sign, \(C^1\)-invariants of the pair \((V,W)\). It means that they are invariants of mappings \(f:V\to V' \) which are homeomorphisms such that \(f(W)=W'\) and both mappings \(f\) and \(f^{-1}\) are continuously (real)-differentiable (\((V',W')\) is another pair such as \((V,W)\)). In particular, they obtain that the multiplicity \(m(V,W)\) of \(W\) in \(V\) is a differentiable invariant. This last result is the main theorem of the paper by \textit{Y.-N. Gau} and \textit{J. Lipman} [Invent. Math. 73, 165-188 (1983; Zbl 0512.32008)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00033].