Universal abelian covers of surface singularities
Algebraic Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We discuss the evidence for and implications of a conjecture that the universal abelian cover of a Q-Gorenstein surface singularity with finite local homology (i.e., the singularity link is a Q-homology sphere) is a complete intersection singularity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0110167,
title = {Universal abelian covers of surface singularities},
author = {Walter D. Neumann and Jonathan Wahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110167},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages. To appear in "Trends in Singularities", Libgober, Tibar, eds. (Birkhaeuser Trends in Mathematics)