Stevens's tautness and quasi-homogeneity conjecture for simple surface singularities

Let XX be a normal surface singularity. It is taut if every other singularity with the same resolution graph is isomorphic to XX, and quasi-homogeneous if it admits a compatible weighted grading. It is simple if only finitely many isomorphism classes occur in its versal deformation.

Stevens's conjecture. A normal surface singularity is simple if and only if it is taut and quasi-homogeneous.

This formulation is presented as equivalent to the graph-theoretic characterization in the paper, using Laufer's classification of taut and pseudotaut singularities. The source does not provide a resolution status for this formulation.

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Jan Stevens, “Simple surface singularities”, arXiv:1303.0692 (2013).

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