Symmetries of Surface Singularities

Publication date 15 September 1997

Abstract: The automorphism group

m A u t : X

of a weighted homogeneous normal surface singularity

X

has a maximal reductive algebraic subgroup

G

which contains every reductive algebraic subgroup of

m A u t : X

up to conjugation. In all cases except the cyclic quotient singularities the connected component

G_{1}

of the unit equals

{B b b C}^{*}

. The induced action of

G

on the minimal good resolution of

X

embeds the finite group

G / G_{1}

into the automorphism group of the central curve

E_{0}

of the exceptional divisor. We describe

G / G_{1}

as a subgroup of

m A u t : E_{0}

in case

E_{0}

is rational as well as for simple elliptic singularities. Moreover, sufficient conditions for

G

to be a direct product

G_{1} i m e s G / G_{1}

are presented. Finally, it is shown that

G / G_{1}

acts faithfully on the integral homology of the link of

X

.

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