ON THE SEMICONTINUITY OF THE MOD 2 SPECTRUM OF HYPERSURFACE SINGULARITIES

Maciej Borodzik, Andras Nemethi, Andrew Ranicki

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We use purely topological methods to prove the semicontinuity of the mod
2 spectrum of local isolated hypersurface singularities in C^{n+1}, using Seifert forms of high-dimensional non-spherical links, the Levine–Tristram signatures and the generalized Murasugi–Kawauchi inequality.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)379-398
JournalJournal of Algebraic Geometry
Volume24
Issue number2
Early online date8 Jan 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2015

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Codimension 2 embedding, Seifert surface, Seifert matrix, Tristram-Levine signature, semicontinuity of the spectrum, variation structures, Mixed Hodge Structure, link at infinity, higher dimensional knots. 1

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