On a conjecture of Varchenko

DOI10.1007/S002220050096MaRDI QIDQ5961434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roberto Silvotti

Publication date 20 February 1997

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9503016

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsMorse theoryhypergeometric integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25) Topological aspects of complex singularities: Lefschetz theorems, topological classification, invariants (32S50)

Abstract: In this note we generalize and prove a recent conjecture of Varchenko concerning the number of critical points of a (multivalued) meromorphic function $phi$ on an algebraic manifold. Under certain conditions, this number turns out to coincide with the Euler characteristic (up to a sign) of the complement of the divisor of $phi$. A few variants of this basic situation are also discussed. Two independent proofs are given, respectively using Chern classes and Morse theory In its original form, this counting problem arises (in special cases) in evaluating the asymptotics of correlation functions of Wess--Zumino--Witten conformal field theory.

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