WEIGHTED HOMOGENEOUS SINGULARITIES AND RATIONAL HOMOLOGY DISK SMOOTHINGS


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BHUPAL M. L., Stipsicz A. I.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, cilt.133, sa.5, ss.1259-1297, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

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We classify the resolution graphs of weighted homogeneous surface singularities which admit rational homology disk smoothings. The nonexistence of rational homology disk smoothings is shown by symplectic geometric methods, while the existence is verified via smoothings of negative weight.