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SINGULARITIES PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA IN PURE MATHEMATICS Volume 40, Part 2

SINGULARITIES

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA IN PURE MATHEMATICS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 40

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUMMER INSTITUTE ON SINGULARITIES HELD AT HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY ARCATA, CALIFORNIA JULY 20-AUGUST 7, 1981

EDITED BY PETER ORLIK

Prepared by the American Mathematical Society with partial support from National Science Foundation grant MCS 80-20208

1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14-XX, 16-XX, 32-XX, 53-XX, 55-XX, 57-XX, 58-XX.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Singularities. (Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics; v. 40, pts. 1, 2) Bibliography: p. 1. Singularities (Mathematics)-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Orlik, Peter, 1938- . II. Series. QA614.58.S55 1983 514'.74 83-2529 ISBN 0-8218-1443-5 (set) ISBN 0^8218-14664 (part 2) ISBN 03218-1450-8 (part 1) ISSN 0082-0717

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PART 1

Preface xx List of participants Desingularization of plane 1 SHREERAM S. ABHYANKAR Zeros of holomorphic vector fields 47 and the Gysin homomorphism E. AKYILDIZ AND J. B. CARRELL On the graded rings associated to 55 holomorphic vector fields with exactly one zero E. AKYILDIZ, J. B. CARRELL, D. I. LIEBERMAN AND A. J. SOMMESE Some open problems in the theory 57 of singularities V. I. ARNOLD Complex surfaces of small homotopy 71 type GOTTFRIED BARTHEL Homeomorphy classification of normal 81

surfaces in P3 with C*-action GOTTFRIED BARTHEL Minimal free resolutions of Gorenstein 105 local rings with small multiplicity KURT BEHNKE Analytic equivalence of isolated hyper- Ill surface singularities defined by homo• geneous polynomials MAX BENSON v VI TABLE OF CONTENTS

An application of to 119 nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations M. S. BERGER, P. T. CHURCH AND J. G. TIMOURIAN Algebras of composite differentiable 127 functions EDWARD BIERSTONE AND PIERRE D. MILMAN The extension problem and related 137 themes in differential analysis EDWARD BIERSTONE AND GERALD W. SCHWARZ On global extensions of Dynkin diagrams 145 and singular surfaces of the topological type of P2 LAWRENCE BRENTON, DAVID BINDSCHADLER, DANIEL DRUCKER AND GEERT C. E. PRINS Milnor lattices and Dynkin diagrams 153 E. BRIESKORN On the topology of polynomial hyper- 167 surfaces S. A. BROUGHTON Genericity of caustics by reflexion 179 J. W. BRUCE, P. J. GIBLIN AND C. G. GIBSON Envelopes, duality and contact structures 195 J. W. BRUCE Bifurcation involving the hexagonal 203 lattice ERNESTO BUZANO AND MARTIN GOLUBITSKY On saturations of singularities 211 (any characteristic) ANTONIO CAMPILLO A note on the classes [£,*(/)] 221 DANIEL S. CHESS Differential maps with small 225 critical set P. T. CHURCH The unfolding and determinacy theorems 233 for subgroups of & and % JAMES DAMON TABLE OF CONTENTS Vll

Topological triviality in versal unfoldings 255 JAMES DAMON Newton titrations, monomial algebras 267 and nonisolated and equivariant singu• larities JAMES DAMON

Contact germs from the plane to the plane 277 A. DIMCA AND C. G. GIBSON

Weyl groups and Cremona transformations 283 IGOR V. DOLGACHEV

Genericity and smooth finite determinacy 295 ANDREW DU PLESSIS

A naive guide to mixed Hodge theory 313 ALAN H. DURFEE

The low-dimensional topology of 321 singularities ALAN H. DURFEE

On the monodromy groups of singularities 327 WOLFGANG EBELING

Rational curves with cusps 337 DAVID EISENBUD

Mixed Hodge structures 345 FOUAD ELZEIN

Special polars and curves with one 353 place at infinity ROBERT EPHRAIM

Another view of critical point theory 361 ISTVAN FARY

Some results on Poincare duality 373 ISTVAN FARY

Some essential valuations in the resolution 381 of singularities JONATHAN FINE

Derivations and smooth discriminant 385 KLAUS FISCHER Vlll TABLE OF CONTENTS

Singularities of period maps and the 391 weak global Torelli problem ROBERT FRIEDMAN AND ROY SMITH The Thorn polynomial of 2TTTT 399 TERENCE GAFFNEY The structure of T&(f), classification 409 and an application to differential geometry TERENCE GAFFNEY Multiple points and associated ramification 429 loci TERENCE GAFFNEY Equivalence theorems in global singularity theory 439 TERENCE GAFFNEY AND LESLIE WILSON Hilbert scheme as flattener 449 A. GALLIGO Differential invariance of multiplicity 453 YIH-NAN GAU AND JOSEPH LIPMAN Classification des singularites isolees 457 simples d'intersections completes MARC GIUSTI Finding the nondegenerate quadratic 495 singularities NORMAN GOLDSTEIN A discussion of symmetry and symmetry 499 breaking MARTIN GOLUBITSKY AND DAVID SCHAEFFER Stratified Morse theory 517 MARK GORESKY AND ROBERT MACPHERSON On the topology of smoothable singularities 535 GERT-MARTIN GREUEL AND JOSEPH STEENBRINK Lefschetz theorems for singular varieties 547 HELMUT A. HAMM Stratification via corank one projections 559 ROBERT M. HARDT An algorithm of construction of the 567 semiuniversal deformation of an isolated singularity HERWIG HAUSER TABLE OF CONTENTS IX

Limites de normales, conditions de 575 Whitney et eclatement d'Hironaka J. P. G. HENRY ET M. MERLE Computation of some projective invariants 585 AUDUN HOLME Deforming complete intersection Artin 593 algebras. Appendix: Hilbert of C[.x, y]/I ANTHONY IARROBINO Duality for Riemannian foliations 609 FRANZ W. KAMBER AND PHILIPPE TONDEUR Normally flat deformations of rational 619 and minimally elliptic singularities ULRICH KARRAS The topology of real algebraic sets 641 H. KING Differential forms and the fundamental 655 group of the complement of hypersurfaces TOSHITAKE KOHNO Questions about the proof of the hard 663 Lefschetz theorem KLAUS LAMOTKE Metric study of the neighbourhood of a 669 singularity REMI LANGEVIN TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 2

Weak simultaneous resolution for deforma- 1 tions of Gorenstein surface singularities HENRY B. LAUFER Introduction to linear differential systems 31 LE DUNG TRANG AND ZOGHMAN MEBKHOUT Cycles evanescents, sections planes et 65 conditions de Whitney. II LE D. T. ET B. TEISSIER Report on the problem session 105 LE D. T. AND B. TEISSIER Extended Artingroups 117 HARM VAN DER LEK Differentiable structures on complete 123 intersections. II ANATOLY S. LIBGOBER AND JOHN W. WOOD Alexander invariants of plane algebraic 135 curves A. LIBGOBER A connection between polar invariants and 145 roots of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial BEN LICHTIN Estimates and formulae 155 for the C° degree of sufficiency of plane curves BEN LICHTIN Quasi-ordinary singularities of 161 surfaces in C3 JOSEPH LIPMAN

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The smoothing components of a triangle 173 singularity. I EDUARD LOOIJENGA On the structure of embedded algebroid 185 surfaces IGNACIO LUENGO Some new surfaces of general type 193 RICHARD MANDELBAUM Distance from a submanifold in 199 Euclidean space JOHN N. MATHER On the topology of Deligne's weight 217 filtration CLINT McCRORY Topological types of 227 polynomial map germs ISAO NAKAI Abelian covers of quasihomogeneous 233 surface singularities WALTER D. NEUMANN Geometry of quasihomogeneous surfaces 245 singularities WALTER D. NEUMANN On the stability of the Newton boundary 259 MATSUO OKA Coxeter arrangements 269 PETER ORLIK AND LOUIS SOLOMON Vanishing folds in families of singularities 293 DONAL B. O'SHEA Projective resolutions of Hodge algebras: Some examples 305 JURGEN PESSELHOY AND OSWALD RIEMENSCHNEIDER Vanishing homologies and the n variable 319 saddlepoint method FREDERIC PHAM A note on higher order dual varieties, 335 with an application to scrolls RAGNI PIENE TABLE OF CONTENTS Xlll

Factorization of birational maps in 343 dimension 3 HENRY C. PINKHAM

Smoothings of the Dpqr singularities, 373 p + q + r = 22 HENRY C. PINKHAM

The normal singularities of surfaces in R3 379 IAN R. PORTEOUS

Probing singularities 395 IAN. R. PORTEOUS

C*-equivariant deformations of germs of 407 coherent sheaves FERNANDO PUERTA

The real Jacobian problem 411 JOHN D. RANDALL

Milnor fibers and Alexander polynomials 415 of plane curves RICHARD RANDELL

Multiple points of real mappings 421 FELICE RONGA

A new look at Faa' de Bruno's formula 423 for higher of composite functions and the expression of some intrinsic derivatives FELICE RONGA

Le type topologique eclate d'une 433 application analytique C SABBAH

{ k) The higher residue pairings K F for a 441 family of hypersurface singular points KYOJI SAITO

On the exponents and the geometric genus 465 of an isolated hypersurface singularity MORIHIKO SAITO

A note on two local Hodge titrations 473 JOHN SCHERK XIV TABLE OF CONTENTS

A cobordism invariant for surface 479 singularities JOSE A. SEADE Isolated line singularities 485 DIRK SIERSMA A convexity theorem 497 ANDREW JOHN SOMMESE Triple contact of plane curves: 507 Schubert's enumerative theory ROBERT SPEISER Mixed Hodge structures associated with 513 isolated singularities J. H. M. STEENBRINK The space and exponential map 537 at an isolated singular point DAVID A. STONE Singularities of complex analytic 551 foliations TATSUO SUWA The exponents of a free hypersurface 561 HIROAKI TERAO Local triviality of families of maps 567 J. G. TIMOURIAN Comparing regularity conditions on 575 stratifications DAVID TROTMAN On singularities on degenerate Del Pezzo 587 surfaces of degree 1, 2 TOHSUKE URABE The structure of quasihomogeneous 593 singularities PHILIP WAGREICH Derivations, automorphisms and deformations 613 of quasi-homogeneous singularities JONATHAN M. WAHL Classification of unimodal isolated 625 singularities of complete intersections C. T. C. WALL TABLE OF CONTENTS XV

^-functions and exponents of hypersurface 641 isolated singularities TAMAKI YANO On irregularity and geometric genus of 653 isolated singularities STEPHEN S.-T. YAU The structure of strata ju = const in a 663 critical set of a complete intersection singularity YOSEF YOMDIN Some results of finite determinacy and 667 stability not requiring the explicit use of YOSEF YOMDIN

L2-cohomology and intersection homology 675 of locally symmetric varieties STEVEN ZUCKER