Choking horns in Lipschitz geometry of complex algebraic varieties. Appendix by Walter D. Neumann

DOI10.1007/S12220-013-9405-XMaRDI QIDQ472103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lev Birbrair, Vincent Grandjean, Donal O'Shea, A. Fernandes

Publication date 18 November 2014

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3105

zbMATH Keywords

complex algebraic varietyconic structureLipschitz geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Real-analytic and semi-analytic sets (14P15) Local complex singularities (32S05)

Abstract: We study the Lipschitz Geometry of Complex Algebraic Singularities. For this purpose we introduce the notion of choking horns. A Choking horn is a family of cycles on the family of the sections of an algebraic variety by very small spheres centered at a singular point, such that the cycles cannot be boundaries of nearby chains. The presence of choking horns is an obstruction to metric conicalness as we can see with some classical isolated hypersurfaces singularities which we prove are not metrically conic. We also show that there exist infinitely countably many singular varieties, which are locally homeomorphic, but not locally bi-Lipschitz equivalent with respect to the inner metric.

Review text

A subanalytic germ \(X\) at the origin of an Euclidean space equipped with the inner metric (the distance between two points is the infimum of the length of rectifiable curves lying in \(X\) and connecting the given two points) is called metrically conical if \(X\) is bi-Lipschitz homeomorphic to the cone over its link at the origin. The authors define choking horns in \(X\) as some families of cycles, which existence in \(X\) is an obstruction to metric conicalness of \(X\). They use them to prove that some classical isolated hypersurface singularities (Brieskorn hypersurface singularities) are not conical.

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