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

DOI10.1007/S12220-013-9405-XzbMATH Open1307.14003arXiv1206.3105OpenAlexW2087456632MaRDI QIDQ472103FDOQ472103

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)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

complex algebraic varietyconic structureLipschitz geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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