The geometry of continued fractions and the topology of surface singularities
The geometry of continued fractions and the topology of surface singularities
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连分数的几何和表面奇点的拓扑
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2005
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Patrick Popescu
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Patrick Popescu
We survey the use of continued fraction expansions in the algebraical and topological study of complex analytic singularities. We also prove new results, firstly concerning a geometric duality with respect to a lattice between plane supplementary cones and secondly concerning the existence of a canonical plumbing structure on the abstract boundaries (also called links) of normal surface singularities. The duality between supplementary cones gives in particular a geometric interpretation of a duality discovered by Hirzebruch between the continued fraction expansions of two numbers l >1 and l/(l - 1).