Symplectic singularities

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Abstract: We discuss a particular class of rational Gorenstein singularities, which we call symplectic. A normal variety V has symplectic singularities if its smooth part carries a closed symplectic 2-form whose pull-back in any resolution X --> V extends to a holomorphic 2-form on X . Our main result is the classification of isolated symplectic singularities with smooth projective tangent cone. They are in one-to-one correspondence with simple complex Lie algebras: to a Lie algebra g corresponds the singularity at 0 of the closure of the minimal (nonzero) nilpotent adjoint orbit in g .


The author introduces symplectic singularities and classifies symplectic singularities of the simplest type. A normal variety is said to have symplectic singularities if its smooth part carries a closed symplectic form, whose pull back to any resolution extends to a global holomorphic 2-form. The relation between symplectic singularities and symplectic complex (hyperKähler) manifolds is analogous to that between rational Gorenstein singularities and Calabi-Yau manifolds. The main theorem states that a germ of an isolated singularity with a smooth projective tangent cone is symplectic if and only if it is analytically isomorphic to the germ \((\overline{\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}, 0)\), where \(\overline{\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}= {\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}\cup\{0\}\) is the closure of a smallest non-zero nilpotent orbit \({\mathcal O}_{\text{min}}\) for the adjoint action of a simple complex Lie algebra. As the next step in the classification of symplectic singularities the author proposes isolated singularities with trivial local fundamental group.




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