On Auslander Modules of Normal Surface Singularities.
The structure of the group of a surface with prescribed singularities is investigated.
We deal with a reducible projective surface with so-called Zappatic singularities, which are a generalization of normal crossings. First we compute the -genus of , i.e. the dimension of the vector space of global sections of the dualizing sheaf . Then we prove that, when is smoothable, i.e. when is the central fibre of a flat family parametrized by a disc, with smooth general fibre, then the -genus of the fibres of is constant.