Right Unimodal and Bimodal Singularities in Positive Characteristic

Abstract The problem of classification of real and complex singularities was initiated by Arnol’d in the sixties who classified simple, unimodal, and bimodal singularities w.r.t. right equivalence. The classification of simple singularities positive characteristic was achieved by Greuel and the auth...

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Published in:International mathematics research notices 2019-03, Vol.2019 (6), p.1612-1641
Main Author: Nguyen, Hong Duc
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Abstract The problem of classification of real and complex singularities was initiated by Arnol’d in the sixties who classified simple, unimodal, and bimodal singularities w.r.t. right equivalence. The classification of simple singularities positive characteristic was achieved by Greuel and the author in 2014. In this article, we classify right unimodal and bimodal singularities in positive characteristic by giving explicit normal forms. It is surprising that in positive characteristic, there are no infinite series of unimodal and bimodal singularities. Moreover, the Milnor number of simple, unimodal, and bimodal singularity satisfies $\mu(\,f)\leq 4p$. As an application we prove that, for singularities of right modality at most 2, the $\mu$-constant stratum is smooth and its dimension is equal to the right modality.
ISSN:1073-7928
1687-0247
DOI:10.1093/imrn/rnx165