Topological triviality of versal unfoldings of complete intersections (Q790494)

We obtain algebraic and geometric conditions for the topological triviality of versal unfoldings of weighted homogeneous complete intersections along subspaces corresponding to deformations of maximal weight. These results are applied to infinite families of surface singularities in \({\mathbb{C}}^ 4\) which begin with the exceptional unimodular singularities, to the intersection of pairs of generic quadrics, and to certain curve singularities. The algebraic conditions are related to the operation of adjoining powers, a generalization for complete intersections of a special form of the Thom-Sebastiani operation. A duality result is proven which relates the Jacobian algebra of f being Gorenstein with \(\tilde N\)(F)* being principal, i.e. generated by one element (here F is obtained from f by adjoining powers, and \(\tilde N\)(F)* is the dual of the space of non-trivial infinitesimal deformations).