On simple Z₂-invariant and corner function germs

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Abstract: V.I.Arnold has classified simple (i.e. having no modules for the classification) singularities (function germs), and also simple boundary singularities (function germs invariant with respect to the action sigma(x1;y1,ldots,yn)=(−x1;y1,ldots,yn) of the group Z2. In particular, it was shown that a function germ (respectively a boundary singularity germ) is simple if and only if the intersection form (respectively the restriction of the intersection form to the subspace to anti-invariant cycles) of a germ in 3+4s variables stable equivalent to the one under consideration is negative definite and if and only if the (equivariant) monodromy group on the corresponding subspace is finite. We formulate and prove analogues of these statements for function germs invariant with respect to an arbitrary action of the group Z2 and also for corner singularities.


Let the cyclic group \(\mathbb Z_2=\langle \sigma \rangle\) of order \(2\) act on \((\mathbb C^{m+n},0)\) via \(\sigma(x_1,\ldots,x_m,y_1,\ldots,y_n)=(-x_1,\ldots,-x_m,y_1,\ldots,y_n)\). Let \(\mathbb Z_2^m=\langle \sigma_1,\ldots,\sigma_m\rangle\) act on \((\mathbb C^{m+n},0)\) via \[\sigma_i(x_1,\ldots,x_m,y_1,\ldots,y_n)=(x_1,\ldots,x_{i-1},-x_i,x_{i+1},\ldots,x_m,y_1,\ldots,y_n).\] Equivariantly simple function germs with respect to these actions (corner singularities) are classified up to stable equivalence. In both cases the property simple is characterized in terms of the intersection form respectively in terms of the monodromy.











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