The vanishing neighbourhood of non-isolated singularities

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Abstract: We study the vanishing neighbourhood of non-isolated singularities of functions on singular spaces by associating a general linear function. We use the carrousel monodromy in order to show how to get a better control over the attaching of thimbles. For one dimensional singularities, we prove obstructions to integer (co)homology groups and to the eigenspaces of the monodromy via monodromies of nearby sections. Our standpoint allows to find, in certain cases, the structure of the Milnor fibre up to the homotopy type.


This article concerns the relationship between the singularities of a hypersurface inside a (singular) space \(X\subset\mathbb{C}^m\) and those of the restricted hypersurface inside \(X\cap\{l=0\}\) for a general linear function \(l\). This is a local study. Let \(F\) be the Milnor fiber of the germ \(f:(X,0)\rightarrow\mathbb{C}\) of a holomorphic function, \(F'\) the Milnor fiber of the restriction to \(X\cap\{l=0\}\). Let \(F_D\) be the inverse image under \((f,l):(X,0)\rightarrow\mathbb{C}^2\) of a small enough box in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) such that \(F=F_D\cap f^{-1}(\gamma)\), with \(\gamma\neq 0\) small. Let \(F_D'=F_D\cap l^{-1}(\nu)\), with \(\nu\neq 0\) small. The author considers the long exact sequence of the triple \((F_D,F\cup F_D',F)\). Assuming the rectified homological depth of \(X\) to be \(\geq\dim_0 X\), this long exact sequence simplifies greatly (Theorem 2.2). Assuming further that \(\dim \text{ Sing } f=1\), the author the expresses the cohomology of \(F\) in terms of the Milnor fibers of the finitely-many isolated singularities given by the restriction of \(f\) to \(F_D'\) (Corollary 3.2). Then the author shows how to recover \(F\) from \(F'\) by attaching thimbles defined by carrousel monodromy and thus generalizes a result of D. Siersma through a different proof.











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