Open Whitney umbrellas are locally polynomially convex

Mitrea, Octavian; Shafikov, Rasul

doi:10.1090/proc/13251

Open Whitney umbrellas are locally polynomially convex
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by Octavian Mitrea and Rasul Shafikov

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016), 5319-5332

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13251

Published electronically: July 21, 2016

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Abstract:

It is proved that any smooth open Whitney umbrella in $\mathbb {C}^2$ is locally polynomially convex near the singular point.

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