Ein neuer Zusammenhang zwischen einfachen Gruppen und einfachen Singularitäten.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14B05, 32S25.The smooth equimultiple locus of embedded algebroid surfaces appears naturally in many resolution processes, both classical and modern. In this paper we explore how it changes by blowing–up.* Supported by FQM 304 and BFM 2000–1523. ** Supported by FQM 218 and BFM 2001–3207.
The purpose of this article is to show that the Whitney conditions are satisfied for complex analytic families of normal surface singularities for which the generic discriminants are equisingular. According to J. Briançon and J. P. Speder the constancy of the topological type of a family of surface singularities does not imply Whitney conditions in general. We will see here that for a family of minimal normal surface singularities these two equisingularity conditions are equivalent.
We determine the possible even sets of nodes on sextic surfaces in , showing in particular that their cardinalities are exactly the numbers in the set . We also show that all the possible cases admit an explicit description. The methods that we use are an interplay of coding theory and projective geometry on one hand, and of homological and computer algebra on the other. We give a detailed geometric construction for the new case of an even set of 56 nodes, but the ultimate verification of existence...