Complex Surface Singularities with Rational Homology Disk Smoothings

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-61958-9_12MaRDI QIDQ5011671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Wahl

Publication date 27 August 2021

Published in Trends in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14696

zbMATH Keywords

rational homology disk smoothingssmoothing surface singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformations of singularities (14B07) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

Abstract: A cyclic quotient singularity of type $p^2/pq-1$ ($0<q<p,(p,q)=1$) has a smoothing whose Milnor fibre is a $mathbbQ$HD, or rational homology disk (i.e., the Milnor number is $0$) ([9], 5.9.1). In the 1980's, we discovered additional examples of such singularities: three triply-infinite and six singly-infinite families, all weighted homogeneous. Later work of Stipsicz, Szab'{o}, Bhupal, and the author ([7], [1]) proved that these were the only weighted homogeneous examples. In his UNC PhD thesis (unpublished but available at [2]), our student Jacob Fowler completed the analytic classification of these singularities, and counted the number of smoothings in each case, except for types $mathcalW$, $mathcalN$, and $mathcalM$. In this paper, we describe his results, and settle these remaining cases; there is a unique $mathbbQ$HD smoothing component except in the cases of an obvious symmetry of the resolution dual graph. The method involves study of configurations of rational curves on projective rational surfaces.

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