Symplectic cohomology of compound Du Val singularities (Q6047218)

Isolated compound Du Val (cDV) singularities are hypersurface singularities which in suitable local analytic coordinates \((w,x,y,z)\) are cut out by an equation of the form \(f(x,y,z)+wg(x,y,z,w)=0\), where the polynomial \(f\) is a normal form of one of the singularities \(A_{\ell}\), \(D_{\ell}\), \(E_6\), \(E_7\) or \(E_8\). The author uses homological mirror symmetry to compute symplectic cohomology for Milnor fibres of certain compound Du Val singularities that admit a small resolution. The computations suggest a new conjecture that the existence of a small resolution has strong implications for the symplectic cohomology and conversely. The computations are also used to give a contact invariant of the link of the singularities and thereby distinguish many contact structures on connected sums of \(S^2\times S^3\).