On the diophantine equation 1= 1n_ i+1 n_ i and a class of homologically trivial complex surface singularities

DOI10.2140/PJM.1988.133.41MaRDI QIDQ1821168zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 1988

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1988.133.41

zbMATH Keywords

Egyptian fractiontopological structure of isolated singularities of complex surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Local complex singularities (32S05)

Review text

In this paper we investigate the relation between an elementary problem in the theory of unit (or Egyptian) fractions, and the local topological structure of isolated singularities of complex surfaces, namely: Let \(n_ 1,...,n_ N\) be integers \(\geq 2\), and let \(x\in X\) be an isolated two-dimensional complex singularity whose dual intersection graph is a star with central \(weight\quad 1\) and with \(weights\quad n\) on the arms. Then X is locally the cone on a homology 3-sphere if and only if \(\sum n_ i^{-1}+(\prod n_ i)^{-1}=1.\quad All\) such unit fraction expressions for 1 are given for \(N\leq 7\), and properties of such sequences \(\{n_ i\}\) are discussed in general.

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