Reeb orbits and the minimal discrepancy of an isolated singularity

DOI10.1007/S00222-015-0620-XzbMATH Open1348.53079arXiv1404.1857OpenAlexW1935693849MaRDI QIDQ295722FDOQ295722

Mark McLean

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which has an isolated singularity at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact manifold contactomorphic to the link of A is said to be Milnor fillable by A. If the first Chern class of our link is torsion then we can assign an invariant of our singularity called the minimal discrepancy, which is an important invariant in birational geometry. We define an invariant of the link up to contactomorphism using Conley-Zehnder indices of Reeb orbits and then we relate this invariant with the minimal discrepancy. As a result we show that the standard contact 5 dimensional sphere has a unique Milnor filling up to normalization proving a conjecture by Seidel.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1857

zbMATH Keywords

singularitycontact manifoldcontactomorphismminimal discrepancyReeb orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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