Date
Mon, 21 Nov 2016
14:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Mark McLean
Organisation
Stony Brook

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which either has an isolated singularity at the origin or is smooth at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small  sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact manifold contactomorphic to the link of A is said to be Milnor fillable by A. If the first Chern class of our link is 0 then we can assign an invariant of our singularity called the minimal
discrepancy. We relate the minimal discrepancy with indices of certain Reeb orbits on our link. As a result we show that the standard contact
5 dimensional sphere has a unique Milnor filling up to normalization. This generalizes a Theorem by Mumford.

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