Existence conjecture for hypersurfaces with prescribed isolated singularities

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Let XX be a projective algebraic variety of dimension nn, let WW be a very ample linear system on XX, and let S1,,SrS_1,\dots,S_r be singularity types with Milnor numbers μ(Si)\mu(S_i). Existence conjecture for prescribed singularities. There exists a constant A=A(X,W)>0A=A(X,W)>0 such that, for each collection S1,,SrS_1,\dots,S_r of singularity types and for each positive integer dd satisfying

i=1rμ(Si)<Adn,\sum_{i=1}^r\mu(S_i)<Ad^n,

a hypersurface WddWW_d\in|dW| exists with exactly rr isolated singularities of types S1,,SrS_1,\dots,S_r, respectively. This is the expected higher-dimensional analogue of the existence results for curves with prescribed singularities; the source presents it as an open problem for hypersurfaces of dimension greater than one, where the discussion is restricted to analytic types.

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Gert-Martin Greuel, Christoph Lossen and Eugenii Shustin, “Equisingular Families of Projective Curves”, arXiv:math/0612310 (2006).

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