We study the adjacencies of singularities of the front of a proper generic Legendrian map with simple stable singularities. This note is a continuation of [5]; the same notation is used. For the necessary information from the theory of Legendrian singularities, see [1] and [4].
A Legendrian monosingularity of type $D_\mu^\delta$, $\delta=\pm1$, can only be adjacent to multisingularities of types $\mathcal{A}=A_{\mu_1}^{k_1}\ldots A_{\mu_p}^{k_p}$ and $D_\nu^\pm\mathcal{A}$. The adjacency indices $J_{D_\nu^\pm\mathcal{A}}(D_\mu^\delta)$ were calculated in the note [5]. The combinatorial formula for the calculation of the indices $J_{\mathcal{A}}(D_\mu^\delta)$ is presented below.
It is Legendrian and has a singularity of type $D_\mu^\delta$ at zero. All connected components of the manifold $\mathcal{A}_f\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ of type $\mathcal{A}$ multisingularities of the map $f$ are contractible (see [2]).
in $t_2$ and the following condition on the roots of a real polynomial of one variable:
(R) the polynomial has a simple real root such that there are no other real roots between it and zero.
Theorem 1. Let $\mathcal{A}=A_{\mu_1}^{k_1}\ldots A_{\mu_p}^{k_p}$ and $m=\sum_{i=1}^{p}k_i$. Then the manifold $\mathcal{A}_f$ has the following connected components.
(1) The components lying in $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{x_1=u=0,\ x_2\leqslant 0\}$; they either lie in the space $x_1\ne0$, or intersect the hyperplane $x_1=0$. The components lying in the space $x_1\ne0$ form pairs of manifolds symmetric with respect to the reflection $x_1\mapsto -x_1$; these pairs are numbered by the relative positions of zero and all real roots of the polynomial (1); in this case the polynomial (1) does not satisfy condition (R) and has $m$ multiple real roots; $k_i$ of them have multiplicity $\mu_i+1$, $i=1,\dots,p$. The components intersecting the hyperplane $x_1=0$ are numbered by the relative positions of all real roots of the polynomial (1); in this case the polynomial (1) satisfies condition (R) and has $m$ multiple non-zero real roots; $k_i$ of them have multiplicity $\mu_i+1$, $i=1,\dots,p$.
(2) The components lying in the space $x_1=u=0$, $x_2<0$; they are numbered by the relative positions of all real roots of the polynomial (1); in this case the polynomial (1) has $m-2$ multiple non-zero real roots; $l_i$ of them have multiplicity $\nu_i+1$, $i=1,\dots,r$, where $A_{\nu_1}^{l_1}\ldots A_{\nu_r}^{l_r}A_1^2=\mathcal{A}$.
(3) The components lying in the subspace $x_1=u=0$, $x_2=0$; they are numbered by the relative positions of all real roots of the polynomial (1); in this case the polynomial (1) has $m-1$ multiple non-zero real roots; $l_i$ of them have multiplicity $\nu_i+1$, $i=1,\dots,r$, where $A_{\nu_1}^{l_1}\ldots A_{\nu_r}^{l_r}A_3=\mathcal{A}$.
Theorem 1 reduces the problem of the calculation of the indices $J_{\mathcal{A}}(D_\mu^\delta)$ to the combinatorics of the possible relative positions of the real roots of the polynomial (1) on the $t_2$-axis, taking into account their multiplicities and the position of zero. Below, for any non-negative integers $n_1,\dots,n_r$ we denote the multinomial coefficient $(n_1+ \dots+n_r)!/(n_1!\cdots n_r!)$ by $\langle n_1,\dots,n_r\rangle$.
Theorem 2. Let $\mathcal{A}=A_{\alpha_1}^{i_1}\ldots A_{\alpha_k}^{i_k}A_{\beta_1}^{j_1}\ldots A_{\beta_l}^{j_l}$, where $\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_k$ are pairwise distinct even numbers and $\beta_1,\dots,\beta_l$ are pairwise distinct odd numbers. Let $a_\mu$ denote the number of factors equal to $A_\mu$ in $\mathcal{A}$. Let $m_1=\sum_{p=1}^{k}i_p$, $m_2=\sum_{r=1}^{l}j_r$,
Remark 1. The calculation using formula (2) of the adjacency indices of Legendrian monosingularities of types $D_\mu^\pm$, $\mu\leqslant6$, to multisingularities of types $A_{\mu_1}^{k_1}\ldots A_{\mu_p}^{k_p}$ leads to the same results as Theorem 2.8 in [3].
Remark 2. Using (2), it is easy to find formulae for the number $J_{\bf 1}(D_\mu^\delta)$ of connected components of the complement to the front of the map $f$:
where $k\geqslant2$. Formulae (3) were obtained previously by Vassiliev [6], who studied the topology of the family of subsets $S(t,q)+x_1t_1+x_2t_2\leqslant u$ in the plane $t=(t_1,t_2)$ in its dependence on the parameters $q$, $x_1$, $x_2$, and $u$.
The author thanks M. E. Kazarian for helpful discussions.
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Citation:
V. D. Sedykh, “Combinatorics of type $D$ singularities of a front”, Russian Math. Surveys, 80:4 (2025), 726–728