Rigidity of quotient singularities
Rigidity of quotient singularities
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01418741
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发表时间:
1971-03
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
M. Schlessinger
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作者:
M. Schlessinger
If a finite group G acts on an affine scheme Y, smooth over a field k, with a single fixed point yeY, then the quotient scheme X= Y/G has an isolated singularity at the point x in X under y. We shall show that this singularity is rigid, provided dim Y> 3, and the order of G is not divisible by the characteristic of k. Rigidity here means that any family containing the germ of X at x is trivial; it is a notion analogous to that of stable mapping germ in the theory of Mather and Thorn. This rigidity theorem answers (affirmatively) a conjecture of Andreotti, and we use it to show that one cannot parody the construction of Kummer varieties, in dimension higher than 2, to obtain examples of smooth projective varieties with interesting deformation theories. For, if A is an Abelian variety of dimension> 2, and G= Z/2 acts on A by a~-a (chc. 4= 2), then the deformations of the singular points of A/G account entirely for the difference between the deformation theory of A and that of the Kummer variety K obtained by desingularizing A/G. If dim A--2, then the sixteen singular points of A/G are conical: z2= xy, with one parameter family z2= xy+ t of deformations. Thus K has more moduli than A does (16 more), but only in dimension 2. The basic method used is the comparison of the deformation theory of a local scheme (X, x) with that of its punctured spectrum U= Xx. I have included a few other examples of rigid singularities, which can be obtained easily from this method. w 1. Deformation Theory in Depth __> 3Let k be a field, and denote by C the category of local schemes X= Spec A, where A is a noetherian local k algebra with residue class field A/ma-k. We shall call X geometric if it is the henselization of a scheme of finite type over k at a k-rational point. The full subcategory of geometric local schemes is thus essentially the category of point germs of algebraic schemes, taken in the local etale topology. We are going to compare the deformation theory of a geometric local scheme X= Spec A with that of U= X-x, x being the closed point