arXiv research

We study symplectic deformation types of minimal symplectic fillings of links of quotient surface singularities. In particular, there are only finitely many symplectic deformation types for each quotient surface singularity.

The study creates Lefschetz fibrations for symplectic fillings of specific surface singularities.

Symplectic fillings of surface singularities linked to minimal model program.

In this paper we write explicitly the open book decompositions of links of quotient surface singularities supporting the corresponding unique Milnor fillable contact structure. The page-genus of these Milnor open books are minimal among all Milnor open books supporting the same contact structure. We also investigate wh…

It has long been known that every quasi-homogeneous normal complex surface singularity with Q-homology sphere link has universal abelian cover a Brieskorn complete intersection singularity. We describe a broad generalization: First, one has a class of complete intersection normal complex surface singularities called "s…

We show that the explicit ALE Ricci-flat Kahler metrics constructed by Eguchi-Hanson, Gibbons-Hawking, Hitchin and Kronheimer, and their free quotients are metrics obtained by Tian-Yau techniques. The proof relies on a construction of good compactifications of Q-Gorenstein deformations of quotient surface singularities…

Study of surface singularities and their deformations.

The paper examines conditions for Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of metric quotients and provides examples of conic-flat surfaces.

This paper extends cyclic branched coverings theory to surfaces with quotient singularities.

Study delta invariant of minimal generic curves on rational surfaces.

The topology of the orbit space, $Y$, for the action of the complex conjugation on a complex surface, $X$, defined over reals, is studied. I give a criterion for blow-up stable triviality of $Y$ (which implies vanishing of its Seiberg-Witten invariants). The main result concerns the double planes branched along the com…

We describe all connected components of the space of hyperbolic Gorenstein quasi-homogeneous surface singularities. We prove that any connected component is homeomorphic to a quotient of R^d by a discrete group.

The paper calculates spectral determinants for two complex surfaces.

Flat semigroups can represent normal weighted homogeneous surface singularities.

The paper studies orbifold splice quotients and log covers of surface pairs.

Proves representability of complex semigroup systems.

Study shows Bergman kernel quotient approaches one for punctured surfaces.

Montgomery-Yang problem predicts that every pseudofree differentiable circle action on the 5-dimensional sphere ${\mathbb S}^5$ has at most 3 non-free orbits. Using a certain one-to-one correspondence, Kollár formulated the algebraic version of the Montgomery-Yang problem: every projective surface $S$ with quotient sin…

Resolves singular fibers of a 5-manifold with $S^1$ action.

Continuum-wise hyperbolicity is exactly the pseudo-Anosov dynamics with spine singularities.

We prove the "End Curve Theorem," which states that a normal surface singularity $(X,o)$ with rational homology sphere link $Σ$ is a splice-quotient singularity if and only if it has an end curve function for each leaf of a good resolution tree. An "end-curve function" is an analytic function $(X,o)\to (\C,0)$ whose ze…

Researchers create minimal surfaces with Scherk ends and find catenoid limits.

Let N_0 = C^2/H be an isolated quotient singularity with H in U (2) a finite subgroup. We show that for any Q-Gorenstein smoothings of N_0 a nearby fiber admits ALE Ricci-flat Kahler metrics in any Kahler class. Moreover, we generalize Kronheimer's results on hyperkahler 4-manifolds, by giving an explicit classificatio…

Paper constructs two series of Lorentz bi-quotients from polyhedra.

We construct compact $G_2$-orbifolds with ADE-singularities that carry exactly one parallel spinor. Our examples are related to certain quotients of $\mathbb{C}^2\times T^3$ that have been investigated in arXiv:hep-th/9812205. We shortly discuss the physical applications of our examples.

New BDEs reveal singular surfaces from line congruences.

The paper resolves fundamental groups for three exceptional surface singularity families.

Montgomery-Yang problem predicts that every pseudofree differentiable circle action on the 5-dimensional sphere has at most 3 non-free orbits. Using a certain one-to-one correspondence, Kollár formulated the algebraic version of the Montgomery-Yang problem: every projective surface $S$ with the second Betti number $b_2…

Study on moduli spaces of sextic curves with simple singularities and their compactifications.

Paper shows mapping classes are largely determined by their finite quotient actions.

Study on discrete Gaussian curvature for polyhedral surfaces.

We study exceptional quotient singularities. In particular, we prove an exceptionality criterion in terms of the $α$-invariant of Tian, and utilize it to classify four-dimensional and five-dimensional exceptional quotient singularities.

The paper introduces a new discretization of Gaussian curvature on surfaces.

New Stein fillings found for rational surface singularities.

Study of Fubini-Study forms on surfaces with punctures.

Study on rational projective planes with small index singularities.

We study the connected components of the space of higher spin bundles on hyperbolic Klein surfaces. A Klein surface is a generalisation of a Riemann surface to the case of non-orientable surfaces or surfaces with boundary. The category of Klein surfaces is isomorphic to the category of real algebraic curves. An m-spin …

In this paper, we prove that any two birational projective varieties with finite quotient singularities can be realized as two geometric GIT quotients of a non-singular projective variety by a reductive algebraic group. Then, by applying the theory of Variation of Geometric Invariant Theory Quotients ([3]), we show tha…

The paper studies cyclic covers of rational surfaces and their Hodge structures.

The underlying complex structure of an ALE Kähler manifold is exhibited as a resolution of a deformation of an isolated quotient singularity. As a consequence, there exist only finitely many diffeomorphism types of minimal ALE Kähler surfaces with a given group at infinity.

The study constructs $G_2$-manifolds from K3 surfaces with a specific action.

Stratifies singular hyperkahler quotients into smooth manifolds.

Reductive quotients preserve klt singularities in algebraic geometry.

We construct a simply connected minimal complex surface of general type with $p_g=0$ and $K^2=2$ which has an involution such that the minimal resolution of the quotient by the involution is a simply connected minimal complex surface of general type with $p_g=0$ and $K^2=1$. In order to construct the example, we combin…

We formulate a very general conjecture relating the analytical invariants of a normal surface singularity to the Seiberg-Witten invariants of its link provided that the link is a rational homology sphere. As supporting evidence, we establish its validity for a large class of singularities: some rational and minimally e…

This paper completes the classification of certain surface singularities with rational homology disk smoothings.

We study Lagrangian embeddings of a class of two-dimensional cell complexes $L_{p,q}$ into the complex projective plane. These cell complexes, which we call pinwheels, arise naturally in algebraic geometry as vanishing cycles for quotient singularities of type $\frac{1}{p^2}(pq-1,1)$ (Wahl singularities). We show that …

Formula calculates Riemann-Roch number for singular symplectic quotients.