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Quartic curves in characteristic 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. T. C. Wall
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX

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Simple singularities in positive characteristic

Simple singularities in positive characteristic have been discussed by many authors, and the article [5] in particular establishes the subject on a firm footing. In it a simple, or ‘ADE’ singularity is defined by a list of normal forms and it is shown that the following conditions on a singularity are equivalent: (i) it is simple, (ii) it has finite deformation type, (iii) it has finite Cohen-Macaulay module type. Moreover, the normal forms for surface singularities coincide with the earlier list of Artin [1] and those for curves with the list of [9]: in those papers further characterizations were obtained.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1995

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