Log-terminal smoothings of graded normal surface singularities

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1378757884MaRDI QIDQ376663zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Wahl

Publication date 19 November 2013

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2979, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1378757884

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb Q\)-Gorensteincanonical coverlog-terminalrational homology disk smoothingSeifert partial resolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformations of singularities (14B07) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25)

Abstract: Recent work ([18], [1]) has produced a complete list of weighted homogeneous surface singularities admitting smoothings whose Milnor fibre has only trivial rational homology (a "rational homology disk"). Though these special singularities form an unfamiliar class and are rarely even log-canonical, we prove the Theorem. A rational homology disk smoothing of a weighted homogeneous surface singularity can always be chosen so that the total space is log-terminal. In particular, this smoothing is $Q$-Gorenstein. The key idea is to define a finite "graded discrepancy" of a normal graded domain with $Q$-Cartier canonical divisor, and to study its behavior for a smoothing.

Review text

If the 3-dimensional total space \(\mathcal X\) of a smoothing of a \(\mathbb Q\)-Gorenstein normal surface singularity has itself \(K_{\mathcal X}\) \(\mathbb Q\)-Cartier, it does not follow that \(\mathcal X\) is \(\mathbb Q\)-Gorenstein, as it need not be Cohen-Macaulay. The author proves that \(\mu=0\) smoothings of weighted homogeneous surface singularities are \(\mathbb Q\)-Gorenstein by proving a stronger result. In this case the smoothing occurs over a 1-dimensional smoothing component of the versal deformation and its total space is shown to be log-terminal. The proof uses a weighted discrepancy and a coarse classification of the singularities in question.NEWLINENEWLINEThe last section gives a criterion for a graded normal surface singularity to be \(\mathbb Q\)-Gorenstein.

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