Polar Cremona transformations and monodromy of polynomials

Abstract: Consider the gradient map associated to any non-constant homogeneous polynomial

f i n C [x_{0}, ..., x_{n}]

of degree

d

, defined by [phi_f=grad(f): D(f) o CP^n, (x_0:...:x_n) o (f_0(x):...:f_n(x))] where

D (f) = x i n C P^{n}; f (x) e q 0

is the principal open set associated to

f

and

f_{i} = f r a c p a r t i a l f p a r t i a l x_{i}

. This map corresponds to polar Cremona transformations. In Proposition ef{p1} we give a new lower bound for the degree

d (f)

of

p h i_{f}

under the assumption that the projective hypersurface

V : f = 0

has only isolated singularities. When

d (f) = 1

, Theorem ef{t4} yields very strong conditions on the singularities of

V

.

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