Download or read book Le Cycles and Hypersurface Singularities written by David Massey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and gives applications of an important new tool in the study of complex analytic hypersurface singularities: the Lê cycles of the hypersurface. The Lê cycles and their multiplicities - the Lê numbers - provide effectively calculable data which generalizes the Milnor number of an isolated singularity to the case of singularities of arbitrary dimension. The Lê numbers control many topological and geometric properties of such non-isolated hypersurface singularities. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in complex analytic singularities.