Local polar varieties in the geometric study of singularities

DOI10.5802/AFST.1582MaRDI QIDQ4556016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Arturo Giles Flores, Bernard Teissier

Publication date 23 November 2018

Published in Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07979

singularities Chern classes characteristic classes tangent cones stratifications Whitney stratifications polar varieties tubular neighborhoods equidimensional varieties Whitney conditions conormal spaces limits of tangent spaces Nash modifications Plücker-type formulas projective duality, multiplicity Todd's formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Germs of analytic sets, local parametrization (32B10) Local complex singularities (32S05) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02) History of several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-03) Stratified sets (58A35)

Abstract: This text presents several aspects of the theory of equisingularity of complex analytic spaces from the standpoint of Whitney conditions. The goal is to describe from the geometrical, topological, and algebraic viewpoints a canonical locally finite partition of a reduced complex analytic space

X

into nonsingular strata with the property that the local geometry of

X

is constant on each stratum. Local polar varieties appear in the title because they play a central role in the unification of viewpoints. The geometrical viewpoint leads to the study of spaces of limit directions at a given point of

X s u b s e t C^{n}

of hyperplanes of

C^{n}

tangent to

X

at nonsingular points, which in turn leads to the realization that the Whitney conditions, which are used to define the stratification, are in fact of a Lagrangian nature. The local polar varieties are used to analyze the structure of the set of limit directions of tangent hyperplanes. This structure helps in particular to understand how a singularity differs from its tangent cone, assumed to be reduced. The multiplicities of local polar varieties are related to local topological invariants, local vanishing Euler-Poincar'e characteristics, by a formula which turns out to contain, in the special case where the singularity is the vertex of the cone over a reduced projective variety, a Pl"ucker-type formula for the degree of the dual of a projective variety. The degree of the dual of a projective variety is expressed in terms of Euler-Poincar'e characteristics attached to the minimal Whitney stratification of the variety.

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