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Milnor number of plane curve singularities in arbitrary characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2025-04-07 v2

Abstract

Reduced power series in two variables with coefficients in a field of characteristic zero satisfy a well-known formula that relates a codimension related to the normalization of a ring and the jacobian ideal. In the general case Deligne proved that this formula is only an inequality; Garc\'ia Barroso and P{\l}oski stated a conjecture for irreducible power series. In this work we generalize Kouchnirenko's formula for any degenerated power series and also generalize Garc\'ia Barroso and P{\l}oski's conjecture. We prove the conjecture in some cases using in particular Greuel and Nguyen.

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@article{arxiv.2409.13520,
  title  = {Milnor number of plane curve singularities in arbitrary characteristic},
  author = {Enrique Artal Bartolo and Pierrette Cassou-Noguès},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13520},
  year   = {2025}
}