Endliche Automorphismengruppen von direkten Produkten komplexer Raumkeime (Q802055)

By a theorem of \textit{R. Ephraim} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 241, 357-371 (1978; Zbl 0395.32006)] every reduced germ X of a complex space admits a unique decomposition \(X=Y_ 1^{k_ 1}\times...\times Y_ r^{k_ r}\) with indecomposable germs \(Y_ 1,...,Y_ r\). In this paper it is shown that every finite subgroup \(G<Aut X\) is contained up to conjugation in \((Aut(Y_ 1^{k_ 1}))\times...\times (Aut(Y_ r^{k_ r})).\) Furthermore, if \(Y_ i\) is not isomorphic to (\({\mathbb{C}},0)\) then \(Aut(Y_ i^{k_ i})\) can be replaced by the semi-direct product of (Aut \(Y_ i)^{k_ i}\) with the symmetric group on \(k_ i\) letters. - Corollary: If G is generated by pseudo-reflections then \(d(X/G)\geq d(X)\) where d denotes the dimension of Whitney's first tangent cone.