Characteristic cohomology. I: Singularities of given type

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAA058MaRDI QIDQ3382305zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Damon

Publication date 21 September 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02092

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic cohomologyhyperplane arrangementsmatrix singularitiesMilnor fibre

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25)

Abstract: For a germ of a variety $mathcalV,0subsetmathbb{C}^N,0$, a singularity $mathcal{V}_0$ of type $mathcalV$, is given by a germ $f_0:mathbb{C}^n,0omathbb{C}^N,0$ which is transverse to $mathcalV$ in an appropriate sense so that $mathcal{V}_0=f_0^{-1}(mathcalV)$. For these singularities, we introduce "characteristic cohomology" to capture the contribution of the topology of $mathcalV$ to that of $mathcal{V}_0$, for the Milnor fiber (for $mathcalV,0$ a hypersurface), and complement and link of $mathcal{V}_0$ (in the general case). The characteristic cohomology of both the Milnor fiber and complement are subalgebras of the cohomology of the Milnor fibers, respectively the complement. For a fixed $mathcalV$, they are functorial over the category of singularities of type $mathcalV$. In addition, for the link of $mathcal{V}_0$ there is a characteristic cohomology subgroup of the cohomology of the link over a field of characteristic 0. The characteristic cohomologies for Milnor fiber and complement are shown to be invariant under the $mathcal{K}_{mathcalV}$-equivalence of defining germs $f_0$, resp. for the link invariant under the $mathcal{K}_H$-equivalence of $f_0$ for $H$ the defining equation of $mathcalV,0$. We give a geometric criteria involving "vanishing compact models", which detect nonvanishing subalgebras of the characteristic cohomologies, resp. subgroups for the link. In part II of this paper we specialize to the case of square matrix singularities, which may be general, symmetric or skew-symmetric.

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