Characterizing normal crossing hypersurfaces

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Abstract: The objective of this article is to give an effective algebraic characterization of normal crossing hypersurfaces in complex manifolds. It is shown that a hypersurface has normal crossings if and only if it is a free divisor, has a radical Jacobian ideal and a smooth normalization. Using K. Saito's theory of free divisors, also a characterization in terms of logarithmic differential forms and vector fields is found and and finally another one in terms of the logarithmic residue using recent results of M. Granger and M. Schulze.


The purpose of this paper is to give an algebraic characterization of normal crossing divisors on complex manifolds. It is known that a normal crossing divisor is a free divisor. The author proves that a divisor on a complex manifold has normal crossings at a point if and only if it is free with radical Jacobian ideal at that point and its normalization is smooth. Since there is a characterization of free divisors using their Jacobian ideals [\textit{A. G. Aleksandrov}, Math. USSR, Sb. 65, No. 2, 561--574 (1990; Zbl 0684.32010); translation from Mat. Sb., Nov. Ser. 137(179), No. 4(12), 554--567 (1988)], one obtains a purely algebraic characterization of normal crossing divisors. From \textit{K. Saito}'s theory [J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I A 27, 265--291 (1980; Zbl 0496.32007)], the characterization can be given in terms of logarithmic differential forms and vector fields, and also from [\textit{M. Granger} and \textit{M. Schulze}, Compos. Math. 150, No. 9, 1607--1622 (2014; Zbl 1314.32043)] it can be given in terms of the logarithmic residue.



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