Tangent Cones to Discriminant Loci for Families of Hypersurfaces

DOI10.2307/2001192zbMath0674.14026OpenAlexW4234430074MaRDI QIDQ3828126

Robert Varley, Roy Campbell Smith

Publication date: 1988

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2001192

zbMATH Keywords

dualityhypersurface singularitiestheta divisorsdiscriminant of the deformationprojective model of the singular locus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) Differentials and other special sheaves; D-modules; Bernstein-Sato ideals and polynomials (14F10) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30) Deformations of singularities (14B07) Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15)

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