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Higher order double point formulas via SSM-Thom polynomials

Algebraic Geometry 2026-01-27 v1

Abstract

We study the geometry of double point loci of maps F:MNF:M\to N of complex manifolds through the lens of Segre-Schwartz-MacPherson (SSM) classes. Classical double point formulas express the fundamental class of the closure of the double point locus of FF in terms of global invariants of source and target spaces, as well as FF. In this paper we extend these results by computing a one-parameter cohomological deformation of the double point formula given by the SSM class. We compute the SSM class of the double point locus in a large cohomological degree range. The leading term in our new formulas recovers the classical double point formula of Fulton and Laksov, while higher-degree terms provide explicit universal corrections. Our approach uses interpolation techniques for SSM-Thom polynomials of multisingularities, recently developed by Koncki, Nekarda, Ohmoto and Rim\'anyi. We also compute SSM-Thom polynomials for the singularities A0A_0 and A1A_1 in the same range. As an application, we show how the deformed formulas yield refined geometric information about those singularity loci through a theorem of Aluffi and Ohmoto, including constraints on when such loci can arise as complete intersections.

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@article{arxiv.2601.17651,
  title  = {Higher order double point formulas via SSM-Thom polynomials},
  author = {Reese Lance},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17651},
  year   = {2026}
}

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45 pages, comments welcome

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