On the contravariant of homogeneous forms arising from isolated hypersurface singularities

Abstract: Let

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{d}

be the vector space of homogeneous forms of degree

d g e 3

on

{m a t h b b C}^{n}

, with

n g e 2

. The object of our study is the map

P h i

, introduced in earlier articles by J. Alper, M. Eastwood and the author, that assigns to every form for which the discriminant

D e l t a

does not vanish the so-called associated form lying in the space

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{n (d - 2) *}

. This map is a morphism from the affine variety

X_{n}^{d} : = f i n {m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{d} : D e l t a (f) e 0

to the affine space

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{n (d - 2) *}

. Letting

p

be the smallest integer for which the product

D e l t a^{p} P h i

extends to a morphism from

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{d}

to

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{n (d - 2) *}

, one observes that the extended map defines a contravariant of forms in

{m a t h c a l Q}_{n}^{d}

. In the present paper we obtain upper bounds for

p

thus providing estimates for the contravariant's degree.

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