Suspensions of fat points and their intersection forms (Q4400905)

Given an \(n\)-dimensional isolated complete intersection singularity (icis) \((X,0)= (F^{-1}(0),0)\subset (\mathbb{C}^{n+ k},0)\) where \(F= (f_1,\dots, f_k): (\mathbb{C}^{n+k},0)\to (\mathbb{C}^k,0)\), the authors study its \(p\)-fold suspension \((X^{(p)},0)\subset (\mathbb{C}^{n+k+1},0)\) defined by \((f_1+ a_1z^p,\dots, f_k+ a_kz^p)\), where \(a_1,\dots, a_k\) are generic coefficients. In the case of the \(p\)-fold suspension \((X^{(p)},0)\) of an icis \((X,0)\subset (\mathbb{C}^2,0)\) defined by two generic function germs \(f,g: (\mathbb{C}^2,0)\to (\mathbb{C},0)\), they compute the following data: 1) a distinguished system of generators of the vanishing homology group \(H_n(V_\varepsilon,\mathbb{Z})\) (the ``Milnor lattice''), where \(V_\varepsilon\) is the Milnor fibre, 2) the equivariant intersection numbers between these cycles, and thus the Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of \((X^{(p)},0)\), and 3) the \(\mathbb{Z}\)-linear relations between these cycles. On the way, they also prove an equivariant analogue of the Picard-Lefschetz formula for the \(A_{p-1}\)-singularity. The paper ends with some examples of Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams of suspensions over the intersections of germs of some particular plane curves. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00033].