Analytic lattice cohomology of isolated curve singularities

Abstract

We construct a lattice cohomology ${\mathbb H}^*(C,o)=\oplus_{q\geq 0}{\mathbb H}^q(C,o)$ and a graded root ${\mathfrak R}(C,o)$ to any complex isolated curve singularity $(C,o)$. Each ${\mathbb H}^q(C,o)$ is a ${\mathbb Z}$-graded ${\mathbb Z}[U]$-module. The Euler characteristic of ${\mathbb H}^*(C,o)$ is the delta-invariant of $(C,o)$. The construction is based on the multivariable Hilbert series of the multifiltration provided by valuations of the normalization. Several examples are discussed, e.g. Gorenstein curves (where an additional symmetry is established), plane curves (in particular, Newton non-degenerate ones), ordinary $r$-tuples. We also prove that a flat deformation $(C_t,o)_{t\in ({\mathbb C},0)}$ of isolated curve singularities induces an explicit degree zero graded ${\mathbb Z}[U]$-module morphism ${\mathbb H}^0(C_{t=0},o)\to {\mathbb H}^0(C_{t\not=0},o)$, and a graded (graph) map of degree zero at the level of graded roots ${\mathfrak R}(C_{t\not=0},o)\to{\mathfrak R}(C_{t=0},o)$. In the treatment of the deformation functor we need a second construction of the lattice cohomology in terms of the system of linear subspace arrangements associated with the above filtration.