A generalization of Milnor's formula

Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Local complex singularities (32S05) Deformation of singularities (58K60) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

Abstract: We describe a generalization of Milnor's formula for the Milnor number of an isolated hypersurface singularity to the case of a function

f

whose restriction

f | (X, 0)

to an arbitrarily singular reduced complex analytic space

(X, 0) s u b s e t (m a t h b b C^{n}, 0)

has an isolated singularity in the stratified sense. The corresponding analogue of the Milnor number,

m u_{f} (a l p h a; X, 0)

, is the number of Morse critical points in a stratum

m a t h s c r S_{a} l p h a

of

(X, 0)

in a morsification of

f | (X, 0)

. Our formula expresses

m u_{f} (a l p h a; X, 0)

as a homological index based on the derived geometry of the Nash modification of the closure of the stratum

m a t h s c r S_{a} l p h a

. While most of the topological aspects in this setup were already understood, our considerations provide the corresponding analytic counterpart. We also describe how to compute the numbers

m u_{f} (a l p h a; X, 0)

by means of our formula in the case where the closure

o v e r l i n e m a t h s c r S_{a} l p h a s u b s e t X

of the stratum in question is a hypersurface.

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