Zariski’s dimensionality type of singularities. Case of dimensionality type 2

Abstract

In the 1970s O. Zariski introduced a general theory of equisingularity for algebroid and algebraic hypersurfaces over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. His theory builds up on understanding the dimensionality type of hypersurface singularities, notion defined recursively by considering the discriminants loci of successive “generic” corank 1 1 projections. The theory of singularities of dimensionality type 1, that is the ones appearing generically in codimension 1, was developed by Zariski in his foundational papers on equisingular families of plane curve singularities. In this paper we completely settle the case of dimensionality type 2, by studying Zariski equisingular families of surfaces singularities, not necessarily isolated, in the three-dimensional space.