Smoothness of the normalization of a free divisor with radical Jacobian ideal

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Let D⊆SD \subseteq S be a divisor in a complex manifold SS that is locally at a point pp given by h=0h=0, and let π:D~→D\pi:\widetilde D \rightarrow D be its normalization. Suppose that DD is free at pp and that Jh=JhJ_h=\sqrt{J_h}. Normalization smoothness conjecture. The normalization D~\widetilde D is smooth at π−1(p)\pi^{-1}(p). The authors do not know whether the normalization hypothesis in the preceding theorem is necessary; this conjecture would provide an affirmative answer under the stated freeness and radical-Jacobian assumptions.

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Eleonore Faber, “Characterizing normal crossing hypersurfaces”, arXiv:1201.6276 (2014).

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