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Publications and source records attributed to Hellen Santana.
In this work, we investigate the connections between the local Euler obstruction and the Poincaré-Hopf-Nash (PHN) index of a $1$-form in the setting of determinantal singularities. As an application, we provide explicit computations of the Euler obstruction of a function with a stratified isolated singularity at the origin defined on an IDS with rigid singularities.
The generalization of the Morse theory presented by Goresky and MacPherson is a landmark that divided completely the topological and geo\-me\-tri\-cal study of singular spaces. Let \{$X_t\}_t$ be a suitable family of germs at $0$ of complete intersection varieties in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and $\{f_t\}_t, \{g_t\}_t$ families of non-constant polynomial functions on $X_t$. If the germs $X_t$, $X_t \cap f_t^{-1}(0)$ and $X_t\cap f_t^{-1}(0) \cap g_t^{-1}(0)$ are non-degenerate, locally tame, complete intersection varieties, for each $t,$ we prove that the difference of the Brasselet numbers, ${\rm B}_{f_t,X_t}(0)$ and ${\rm B}_{f_t,X_t\cap g_t^{-1}(0)}(0)$, is related with the number of Morse critical points {on the regular part of the Milnor fiber} of $f_t$ appearing in a morsefication of $g_t$, even in the case where $g_t$ has a critical locus with arbitrary dimension. This result connects topological and geometric properties and allows us to determine some interesting formulae, mainly in terms of the combinatorial information from Newton polyhedra.
Let $(X,0)$ be the germ of an equidimensional analytic set in $(\mathbb C^n,0)$ and $f=(f_1,f_2)$ a map-germ into the plane defined on $X.$ In this work, we investigate topological invariants associated to the pair $(f,X),$ among them, the Euler obstruction of $f,$ $Eu_{f,X}(0),$ and under convenient assumptions, the Chern number of families of differential forms associated to $f.$ The topological information provided by these invariants is useful, although difficult to calculate. The aim of the paper is to introduce the Bruce-Roberts and the relative Bruce-Roberts numbers as useful algebraic tools to capture the topological information giving by the Euler obstruction and the Chern numbers. Closed formulas are given when $X,\, X\cap f_2^{-1}(0),\, X\cap f_2^{-1}(0)\cap f_1^{-1}(0)$ are ICIS. In the last section, for a 2-dimensional ICIS $(X,0) \subset (\mathbb C^n,0),$ we apply our results to give an alternative description for the number of cusps $c(f|_X)$ of an stabilization of an $\mathcal A$-finite map-germ $f=(f_1, f_2): (X,0) \to (\mathbb C^2,0).$ A formula for $c(f|_X)$ was first given in [21].
In this work we investigate the topological information captured by the Euler obstruction of a map, $f:(X,0)\to (\mathbb{C}^{2},0)$, with $(X,0)$ a germ of a complex $d$-equidimensional singular space, with $d > 2$, and its relation with the local Euler obstruction of the coordinate functions and, consequently, with the Brasselet number. Nevertheless, under some technical conditions on the departure variety we relate the Chern number of a special collection related to the map-germ $f$ at the origin with the number of cusps of a generic perturbation of $f$ on a stabilization of $(X,f)$.
In this work, we study the consequences of an empty polar variety on the topology of a function-germ with (possibly) nonisolated singularities defined on a singular variety.
The Brasselet number of a function $f$ with nonisolated singularities describes numerically the topological information of its generalized Milnor fibre. In this work, we consider two function-germs $f,g:(X,0)\rightarrow(\mathbb{C},0)$ such that $f$ has isolated singularity at the origin and $g$ has a stratified one-dimensional critical set. We use the Brasselet number to study the local topology a deformation $\tilde{g}$ of $g$ defined by $\tilde{g}=g+f^N,$ where $N\gg1$ and $N\in\mathbb{N}$. As an application of this study, we present a new proof of the Lê-Iomdin formula for the Brasselet number.
The Brasselet number of a function $f$ with nonisolated singularities describes numerically the topological information of its generalized Milnor fibre. In this work, using the Brasselet number, we present several formulas for germs $f:(X, 0) \rightarrow (\mathbb{C}, 0)$ and $g : (X, 0)\rightarrow (\mathbb{C}, 0)$ in the case where g has a one-dimensional critical locus. We also give applications when f has isolated singularities and when it is a generic linear form.