Singularities : proceedings of the IMA Participating Institutions Conference held July 28-August 1, 1986, with support from the participating institutions of the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications and the University of Iowa / Richard Randell, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

IMA Participating Institutions Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Randell, Richard, editor.

University of Minnesota. Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, issuing body.

University of Iowa, issuing body.

Conference Name:

IMA Participating Institutions Conference (1986 : University of Iowa), issuing body.

IMA Participating Institutions Conference

Series:

Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society). 0271-4132 90

Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singularities (Mathematics)--Congresses.

Singularities (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covers the proceedings of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Participating Institutions Conference on Singularities, held at the University of Iowa in July 1986. Suitable for researchers in various aspects of singularity theory, this work provides an overview of the state of singularity theory and details work in several subareas.

Contents:

Contents

List of Participants

Preface

Generically ample divisors on normal Gorenstein surfaces

Topological equivalence for nonisolated singularities and global affine hypersurfaces

The cohomology and fundamental group of a hyperplane complement

The modified analytic trivialization of a family of real analytic mappings

On the topological types of quasi-ordinary surface germs

Report on the problem session

Two dimensional singularities with bounded pluri-genera Î?m are Q-Gorenstein singularities

Arrangements of hyperplanes and broken circuits

Simply connected four-manifolds obtained from weighted homogeneous polynomials

Holonomy Lie algebras, logarithmic connections and the lower central series of fundamental groups

Tangent cones for deformations of two-dimensional quasi-homogeneous singularities

On the weak simultaneous resolution of a negligible truncation of the Newton boundary

Basic derivations for unitary Reflection groups

Basic derivations for G34: Appendix to Basic derivations for unitary reflection groups, by P. Orlik

Spaces of limiting tangent spaces.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8218-7678-3

0-8218-5423-2