Contact-form characterization of smooth isolated singularities

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Let X⊂CNX \subset \mathbb{C}^N be a variety of dimension nn with a normal isolated singularity at 00. For sufficiently small ϵ>0\epsilon>0, let LX,ϵL_{X,\epsilon} be its link, and let θX,ϵ\theta_{X,\epsilon} be the induced contact form; let θst\theta_{\mathrm{st}} be the standard contact form on the sphere S2n−1S^{2n-1}. Contact-form conjecture. If LX,ϵL_{X,\epsilon} is diffeomorphic to S2n−1S^{2n-1} and the contact forms θX,ϵ\theta_{X,\epsilon} specialize to θst\theta_{\mathrm{st}} as ϵ→0\epsilon\to0, then XX is smooth at 00. Smooth varieties satisfy this specialization property, but the converse is proposed and remains open for normal isolated singularities.

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Tommaso de Fernex and Yu-Chao Tu, “Towards a link theoretic characterization of smoothness”, arXiv:1608.08510 (2017).

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