Contact-form characterization of smooth isolated singularities
Contact-form characterization of smooth isolated singularities
Let be a variety of dimension with a normal isolated singularity at . For sufficiently small , let be its link, and let be the induced contact form; let be the standard contact form on the sphere . Contact-form conjecture. If is diffeomorphic to and the contact forms specialize to as , then is smooth at . 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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