{ "id": "1207.5036", "version": "v3", "published": "2012-07-20T19:40:44.000Z", "updated": "2013-06-10T16:36:26.000Z", "title": "Arc spaces of cA_1 singularities", "authors": [ "János Kollár" ], "comment": "The paper is entirely superseded by arXiv:1306.1208", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Let p be a singular point of a complex hypersurface whose tangent cone is a quadric of rank at least 3. We show that the space of arcs through p is irreducible. Using a method of de Fernex, this shows that the Nash problem has a negative answer for x^2+y^2+z^2+t^5=0. Version 2: Several small corrections.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2013-06-10T16:36:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14E18", "14B05", "14J17", "14E15", "32S05" ], "keywords": [ "arc spaces", "singularities", "singular point", "complex hypersurface", "tangent cone" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1207.5036K" } } }