Homology of complex projective hypersurfaces with isolated singularities

Miller, John L.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0418104-2

Homology of complex projective hypersurfaces with isolated singularities
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by John L. Miller

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (1976), 310-312

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0418104-2

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Abstract:

We use information concerning the homology of links and Milnor fibers at each singularity of a hypersurface $\tilde V$, of degree $d$ in $C{P^{n + 1}}$ with only isolated singularities, to determine $\tilde V$’s homology except for the question of torsion in ${H_n}(\tilde V;Z)$.

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