Cohomological vanishing conjecture for dual complexes of rational singularities

Let f:XYf:X\to Y be a good resolution of an isolated rational singularity oYo\in Y, and let the exceptional divisor be

D(r)=riDiD_{(r)}=\sum r_iD_i

with effective simple normal crossings support. Let Δ\Delta denote the dual complex of the exceptional divisor. Cohomological vanishing conjecture. One has

Hi(Δ,C)=0for all i>0.H^i(\Delta,\mathbb C)=0\qquad\text{for all }i>0.

This is proposed as a weaker assertion than contractibility of the dual complex for isolated rational singularities. It would follow from the stronger conjectural relationship between the cohomology of the dual complex and that of the non-reduced exceptional divisor, while the general case remains open.

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Parsa Bakhtary, “On the cohomology of a simple normal crossings divisor”, arXiv:0811.2246 (2008).

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