Il'yuta's monotone-cycle conjecture for Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams

Assume n2(mod4)n\equiv2\pmod 4. Let DD be a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram, with vertices given by a distinguished basis and edge weights δi,δj\langle\delta_i,\delta_j\rangle. A monotone cycle is a sequence of vertices (δi1,,δik)(\delta_{i_1},\ldots,\delta_{i_k}) with i1<<iki_1<\cdots<i_k, in which each δij\delta_{i_j} is connected to δij+1\delta_{i_{j+1}}, with indices taken cyclically. Let D{\mathcal D} denote the collection of such diagrams, and let the modality be the modality of the singularity. Il'yuta's monotone-cycle conjecture. The minimum over all DDD\in{\mathcal D} of the smallest number of edges that must be deleted so that DD contains no monotone cycles is equal to the modality of the singularity. The conjecture was disproved by counterexamples for bimodal singularities.

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Wolfgang Ebeling, “Distinguished bases and monodromy of complex hypersurface singularities”, arXiv:1905.12435 (2019).

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