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Publications and source records attributed to Emel Bilgin.
In this paper we observe that the {\L}ojasiewicz exponent $\mathcal{L}_0(X)$ of an ADE-type singularity $X$ can be computed by means of invariants of certain ideals in the local ring ${\mathcal O}_{X,0}$. After extending the notion of {\L}ojasiewicz exponent to rational singularities of higher multiplicities we make a similar observation for RTP-type singularities.
Let X be a projective hypersurface in P_k^n of degree d <= n. In this paper we study the relation between the class [X] in K_0(Var_k) and the existence of k-rational points. Using elementary geometric methods we show, for some particular X, that X(k) is nonempty if and only if [X] is equivalent to 1 modulo the class of the affine line in K_0(Var_k). More precisely we consider the following cases: a union of hyperplanes, a quadric, a cubic hypersurface with a singular k-rational point, and a quartic which is a union of two quadrics one of which being smooth.