Immersions associated with holomorphic germs

DOI10.4171/CMH/363zbMATH Open1335.32022arXiv1404.2853MaRDI QIDQ894372FDOQ894372

András Némethi, Gergő Pintér

Publication date: 30 November 2015

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A holomorphic germ Phi: (C^2, 0) o (C^3, 0), singular only at the origin, induces at the links level an immersion of S^3 into S^5. The regular homotopy type of such immersions are determined by their Smale invariant, defined up to a sign ambiguity. In this paper we fix a sign of the Smale invariant and we show that for immersions induced by holomorphic gems the sign-refined Smale invariant is the negative of the number of cross caps appearing in a generic perturbation of Phi. Using the algebraic method we calculate it for some families of singularities, among others the A-D-E quotient singularities. As a corollary, we obtain that the regular homotopy classes which admit holomorphic representatives are exactly those, which have non-positive sign-refined Smale invariant. This answers a question of Mumford regarding exactly this correspondence. We also determine the sign ambiguity in the topological formulae of Hughes-Melvin and Ekholm-Szucs connecting the Smale invariant with (singular) Seifert surfaces. In the case of holomorphic realizations of Seifert surfaces, we also determine their involved invariants in terms of holomorhic geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2853

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zbMATH Keywords

Seifert surfaceholomorphic maphypersurface singularitylink of singularitySmale invariantregular homotopy type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local complex singularities (32S05) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40)

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• On k-folding map-germs and hidden symmetries of surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space
• Cross-caps, triple points and a linking invariant for finitely determined germs
• The boundary of the Milnor fibre of certain non-isolated singularities
• Immersions and Embeddings in Domains of Holomorphy

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