C^*- Actions on Stein analytic spaces with isolated singularities

Publication date: 4 September 2007

Abstract: Let

V

be an irreducible complex analytic space of dimension two with normal singularities and

v r : m a t h b b C^{*} i m e s V o V

a holomorphic action of the group

m a t h b b C^{*}

on

V

. Denote by

f a_{v} r

the foliation on

V

induced by

v r

. The leaves of this foliation are the one-dimensional orbits of

v r

. %and its singularities are the fixed points of

v r

. We will assume that there exists a emph{dicritical} singularity

p i n V

for the

-action, i.e. for some neighborhood

p i n W s u b s e t V

there are infinitely many leaves of

m a t h c a l F_{v} r |_{W}

accumulating only at

p

. The closure of such a local leaf is an invariant local analytic curve called a emph{separatrix} of

m a t h c a l F_{v} r

through

p

. In cite{Orlik} Orlik and Wagreich studied the 2-dimensional affine algebraic varieties embedded in

m a t h b b C^{n + 1}

, with an isolated singularity at the origin, that are invariant by an effective action of the form

s i g m a_{Q} (t, (z_{0}, ..., z_{n})) = (t^{q_{0}} z_{0}, ..., t^{q_{n}} z_{n})

where

Q = (q_{0}, ..., q_{n}) i n m a t h b b N^{n + 1}

, i.e. all

q_{i}

are positive integers. Such actions are called emph{good} actions. In particular they classified the algebraic surfaces embedded in

m a t h b b C^{3}

endowed with such an action. It is easy to see that any good action on a surface embedded in

m a t h b b C^{n + 1}

has a dicritical singularity at

0 i n m a t h b b C^{n + 1}

. Conversely, it is the purpose of this paper to show that good actions are the models for analytic

m a t h b b C^{*}

-actions on Stein analytic spaces of dimension two with a dicritical singularity.

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