Durfee's conjecture on the signature of smoothings of surface singularities

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2332zbMATH Open1382.32020arXiv1411.1039OpenAlexW2964189696MaRDI QIDQ5348137FDOQ5348137

Authors: János Kollár, András Némethi 

Publication date: 14 August 2017

Published in: Annales Scientifiques de l?tcole Normale Sup�rieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1978 Durfee conjectured various inequalities between the signature and the geometric genus of a normal surface singularity. Since then a few counter examples have been found and positive results established in some special cases. We prove a `strong' Durfee--type inequality for any smoothing of a Gorenstein singularity, provided that the intersection form the resolution is unimodular, and the conjectured `weak' inequality for all hypersurface singularities and for sufficiently large multiplicity strict complete intersections. The proofs establish general inequalities valid for any normal surface singularity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1039

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zbMATH Keywords

resolutiongeometric genussurface singularitiesDurfee's conjecturesignature of smoothingunimodular intersection form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Local complex singularities (32S05) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25)

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