Toric resolutions of strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial germs of type
Abstract.
We consider toric resolutions of some strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials of type . We show that the strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial (see §3) has no mixed critical points on (Lemma 14), and moreover, show that the strict transform of the mixed hypersurface singularity via the toric modification , where we set , is not only a real analytic manifold outside of but also a real analytic manifold as a germ of (Theorem 15).
Key words and phrases:
-singularity, mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial, Newton non-degenerate, toric modification, toric resolution2020 Mathematics Subject Classification:
14P05, 32S451. Introduction
The famous Hilbert’s 16th problem (see [1], [18], [2] for example) asks the topology of nonsingular real algebraic curves of degree on the real projective plane and nonsingular real algebraic surfaces of degree in the real projective space . D.A. Gudkov completed the isotopic classification (the 56 isotopy types) of nonsingular real algebraic curves of degree on in 1971 (cf. [1]). Especially he proved that the number of the isotopy types of nonsingular real algebraic -curves of degree on is three. See Figure 1 below:

In the early 1970s, V. A. Rokhlin ([10], [11], [12]) reproved this Gudkov’s result by differential topology, which includes Smith theory on group actions, and some index theorems on -dimensional manifolds. From complex geometric point of view, double coverings of branched along nonsingular algebraic sextic curves and nonsingular algebraic quartic surfaces in are K3 surfaces. V. M. Kharlamov ([3]) started applying the K3 surface theory and the deformation theory to Hilbert’s 16th problem and obtained many remarkable results. Subsequently to Kharlamov’s approaches, V.V. Nikulin ([4]) reproved Gudkov’s isotopic classification of nonsingular real sextic curves by using the moduli spaces (period domains, or Hilbert schemes) of real projective K3 surfaces and his lattice (integral symmetric bilinear forms) theory in 1979.
In the 1980s, O. Ya. Viro ([15]) reconstructed Gudkov’s 56 isotopy types of nonsingular real algebraic curves of degree by his patchworking method (see [17] for the details), where he used the real weighted homogeneous polynomials of type with two variables:
where is a real number and , and their nonsingular perturbations. He got all the nonsingular perturbations of the weighted homogeneous polynomials of type ([16]). Roughly speaking, he patchworked two appropriate nonsingular perturbations of some polynomials of type , and projectified the patchworked polynomial of degree . Nonsingular perturbations whose zero sets (in ) have many connected components are very useful for constructions of nonsingular real algebraic -curves of degree on . Thus, the weighted homogeneous polynomials of type were found to be very important for the constructions of nonsingular real algebraic curves of degree on .
In this paper we consider mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials of type , especially, strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials of type . It would be expected that there exist some relations between the topology of the real parts of (toric) resolutions of mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials with real coefficients and that of nonsingular perturbations of real weighted homogeneous polynomials. In this paper we eventually show that the strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial (the polynomial (3.3) in §3):
has no mixed critical points on (Lemma 14), and moreover, show that the strict transform of the mixed hypersurface singularity via the toric modification , where we set , is not only a real analytic manifold outside of but also a real analytic manifold as a germ of (Theorem 15).
2. Basic terminology about mixed polynomials
Here we recall basic terminology about mixed polynomials.
2.1. Mixed functions and their radial Newton polyhedrons
Let be a neighborhood of in with , where stands for the complex conjugate of . Let be a complex valued holomorphic function on with complex variables. We assume that We define by
We call such a (or ) a mixed analytic function (or mixed function) on . Let be the Taylor expansion of at , where Then we have
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Note that the coefficients of the Taylor expansion (2.1) of a mixed function are unique. We call a mixed polynomial if the number of monomials is finite.
Definition 1.
Let be a mixed function on . We say is a mixed critical point (or a mixed singular point) of if the rank of the differential map
is less than . We say is a mixed regular point of if it is not a mixed critical point of .
We set , where .
For the germ (at ) of a mixed function ,
is defined to be the convex hull of the set . We call the (radial) Newton polyhedron of .
For a “weight vector” , we define to be the minimum value of the linear function where . We set
which we call a face of . Note that by its definition.
We say a weight vector is strictly positive () if for every . Note that a face of is compact if and only if for some strictly positive weight vector . For a compact face , we define
which we call a face function (or face polynomial) of a mixed function germ ([9], p.78).
Definition 2 ([9], p.79).
Let be the germ of a mixed function at . For , denotes the restriction of on the coordinate subspace . A mixed function germ is called convenient if for every with .
2.2. Radially and polar weighted homogeneous polynomials
Definition 3 ([9], p.182; see also [8]).
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A mixed polynomial is called radially weighted homogeneous if there exists a weight vector and a positive integer such that
We call the radial degree of , and define
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A mixed polynomial is called polar weighted homogeneous if there exists a weight vector and an integer () such that
We call the polar degree of , and define
Every face function , where is strictly positive, of a mixed function germ is a radially weighted homogeneous polynomial of positive radial degree with respect to the weight vector .
Example 4 ([9], Example 9.17).
is radially weighted homogeneous with respect to and polar weighted homogeneous with respect to .
For radially and polar weighted homogeneous polynomials, we have the following basic facts:
Lemma 5 (cf.[6], [7]).
Let be a mixed polynomial. We have the following.
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Let be a weight vector and be a positive integer. For a positive real number and , we define
Then, for every and every if and only if “” holds.
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Let be a weight vector and be an integer. For a real number and , we define
Then, for every and every if and only if “” holds.
Proposition 6 (Euler equalities, [9]).
Let be a mixed polynomial.
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If is a radially weighted homogeneous polynomial of radial degree with respect to a weight vector , then we have
(2.2) - (P):
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If is a polar weighted homogeneous polynomial of polar degree with respect to a weight vector , then we have
(2.3)
Definition 7 (mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial, [9], pp.182–184).
We say a mixed polynomial is a mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial if it is both radially and polar weighted homogeneous. Here, the corresponding weight vectors and are possibly different. We say a mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial is a strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial if is radially and polar weighted homogeneous with respect to the same weight vector . Furthermore, a mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial is called a strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial with respect to a weight vector if is radially and polar weighted homogeneous with respect to the same weight vector and .
Definition 8 (cf.[9],Definition 9.18; [8],p.174).
Let be a mixed function germ at . The germ of a mixed function at is defined to be of strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous face type if for every compact face 111 In [8], a convenient (Definition 2) mixed function germ is defined to be of strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous face type if the face function is a strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial for every -dimensional face. Besed on this definition, Proposition 10 of [8] asserts that the face function is also a strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial with respect to for every weight vector when is a convenient mixed function germ of strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous face type in the sense of [8]. , the face function is a strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial (Definition 7) with respect to some strictly positive weight vector with .
2.3. Newton non-degeneracy and Strong Newton non-degeneracy
Definition 9 ([7], p.6, Definition 3; [9], p.80 and pp.181–182).
Let be the germ of a mixed function at .
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We say is Newton non-degenerate over a compact face if is not a mixed critical value of the face function . (In particular, if , then is not a mixed critical value of the face function .)
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Let be a compact face with . We say is strongly Newton non-degenerate over if the face function has no mixed critical points and is surjective onto .
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Let be a compact face with , that is, is a vertex of . We say is strongly Newton non-degenerate over if the face function has no mixed critical points.
Definition 10 ([9], p.80 and p.182).
We say the germ of a mixed function at is Newton non-degenerate (respectively, strongly Newton non-degenerate) if is Newton non-degenerate (respectively, strongly Newton non-degenerate) over every compact face .
Example 11 ([9], 8.3.1).
The germ of the mixed homogeneous polynomial of degree at is Newton non-degenerate, but not strongly Newton non-degenerate. Actually, for every compact face , we have . However, since , every point in is a mixed critical point. Hence, is not strongly Newton non-degenerate.
Note that if , then is surjective. Namely, in this case, Newton non-degeneracy over a compact face implies strong Newton non-degeneracy over . For more precise statements, see Proposition 12 below:
Proposition 12 (Remark 4 in [7]; and also [13], [14]).
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Let be a holomorphic weighted homogeneous polynomial of positive degree with respect to a strictly positive weight vector . (Then, .)
(i) Suppose that is Newton non-degenerate over , namely, is not a critical value of . Then has no critical point. Hence, with (ii) below, is strongly Newton non-degenerate over .
(ii) Suppose that , namely, has at least two monomials. Then is surjective.
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Let be a mixed weighted homogeneous polynomial (Definition 7) with respect to a radial weight vector and a polar weight vector .
(iii) Suppose that is Newton non-degenerate over a compact face and the face function is a polar weighted homogeneous polynomial of non-zero polar degree with respect to the polar weight vector . Then has no mixed critical points.
(iv) In addition to (iii), we assume that . Then is surjective. Hence, with (iii), in this case, Newton non-degeneracy over a compact face implies strong Newton non-degeneracy over .
3. Mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials of type
We now consider the weighted homogeneous polynomials of type :
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where we assume that and . Note that these polynomials are weighted homogeneous with respect to the weight vector
of degree with real coefficients.
Based on the weighted homogeneous polynomials (3.1), let us consider the radially weighted homogeneous polynomials with respect to the radial weight vector of radial degree :
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where are integers with and .
Obviously are convenient (Definition 2).
3.1. The radial Newton polyhedron, the dual Newton diagram and the regular simplicial cone subdivision
The radial Newton polyhedron of the mixed function germ at is as follows:
The dual Newton diagram of the mixed function germ at is as in the Figure 3, where we set .

Adding the vertex to , we obtain a regular simplicial cone subdivision (see [9], §5.6; or [5] for the definition) of which is admissible for .

Definition 13 ([9], p.98).
We set for every , and
where . Let be the germ of a mixed function at . For , denotes the restriction of on the coordinate subspace . Let be a regular simplicial cone subdivision which is admissible for . We say is convenient if for every with , the cone is contained in .
Then our (Figure 4) is convenient in the sense of Definition 13, namely, the cone is contained in for every with .
We moreover set . Then, all the compact faces of the radial Newton polyhedron of the germ are
and hence, the face functions of are
3.2. Strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials of type
The radially weighted homogeneous polynomials are strongly mixed weighted homogeneous with respect to (Definition 7) if and only if are in the following cases:
polar degree | ||||||||
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I | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | holomorphic case |
II | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
III | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
IV | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |
V | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
In the cases II V (), the radial degrees of are , and the polar degrees of those are . For their -dimensional face functions and , we have
Hence, remark that the germs (in the cases II V) are of strongly polar positive mixed weighted homogeneous face type (Definition 8).
3.3. Strong Newton non-degeneracy
We now argue about the Newton degeneracy of the strongly mixed weighted homogeneous polynomials in the cases II V. Especially let us investigate the case IV with :
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Lemma 14.
We have the following.
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has no mixed critical points on .
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is surjective.
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The -dimensional face functions of also have has no mixed critical points on .
Thus, the germ is strongly Newton non-degenerate (Definition 10).
Proof.
We first prove the assertion (1). We have
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By Lemma 5, we have for every since (radial degree) and (polar degree). Hence, if , then we have
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for all . By Proposition 6, we have
and
Suppose that is a mixed critical point of . Recall that the following two conditions are equivalent (Proposition 1 in [6]):
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is a mixed critical point of .
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There exists a complex number with which satisfies
We have
and
Thus we have and Hence, it is concluded that . Thus we see that every mixed critical point of is a zero of that.
Now we show that has no mixed critical points on . It is sufficient to prove that has no mixed critical points in , namely, is Newton non-degenerate over .
Suppose that and . If or , then is not a mixed critical point. Thus we may moreover suppose that and . Then we have
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for some with . On the other hand, by (3.5), we have for all . We set . Then, by the chain rules for Wirtinger derivative, we have
Hence, we have
Setting , we have
By (3.6), we have
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We now show that such is not a mixed critical point. It is sufficient to prove that . Suppose that . We have
(3.8) |
that is,
We have
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and
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This means that and have the same direction in the complex plane . Note that by (3.9), we also have
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and
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By the calculations (3.4) of partial derivatives, we have
On the other hand, we have
By the latter equality of (3.6), we have
Since is a negative real number, we have . Namely, we have
Then, on the other hand, we have
and
Thus, by the first equality of (3.6), we have
and
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The equality (3.13) with (3.11) and (3.12) yields
Thus we have
Using (3.10), we have
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namely,
Hence, we have
and
Hence, we have
that is,
Since and have the same direction in (see (3.10)), we have
Recall that is a zero of . We have
where we set . Then we have
and
Finally we have
This assertion contradicts to . We finally have , and see that is not a mixed critical point.
We next prove the assertion (2), i.e., the surjectivity of . For the mixed polynomial (3.2), if is a real variable, then we have
Since , the equation has a real solution . Hence we have
Recall that are strongly mixed weighted homogeneous if is one of the cases in Table LABEL:strongly-mixed-whp-5cases. By the above results and (iii),(iv) of Proposition 12, we conclude that is surjective. (Hence, is strongly Newton non-degenerate over the -dimensional face , where . )
Finally, we prove the assertion (3). Let us consider the -dimensional face functions and of in the Table LABEL:strongly-mixed-whp-5cases. If , then we have
and hence, has no mixed critical points. If , then we have
and hence, has no mixed critical points. Hence, the -dimensional face functions and of are strongly Newton non-degenerate. This completes the proof of Lemma 14. ∎
3.4. Toric modifications associated with the regular simplicial cone subdivision
Now let us consider the toric modification associated with the regular simplicial cone subdivision (Figure 4). Note that
All -dimensional cones of are as follows (up to permutations of vertices):
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We now show that the Assumption (*) in Theorem 32 of [13] is satisfied for the mixed polynomial germ and our regular simplicial cone subdivision .
(I) We first set
On the toric chart , the toric modification is written as . The toric chart intersects the exceptional divisor only. If , then . We have . Here we set
Then we have
and
We set
and the strict transform of to in the toric chart is given by
If , then . Hence, for some . However, we have . Thus we have on the toric chart . Thus, the Assumption (*) in Theorem 32 of [13] is satisfied for on the toric chart .
(II) We next consider the cone and the toric chart . Both and are strictly positive, and intersects the exceptional divisors and . If , then or . If , then . If and , then for some . If and , then for some . Then is written as for some in the toric chart , where we set
Thus, the Assumption (*) in Theorem 32 of [13] is satisfied for on the toric chart .
(III) We finally consider the cone and the toric chart . On the toric chart , the toric modification is written as . The toric chart intersects the exceptional divisor only. If , then . Here and recall that
Then we have
and
We set
then the strict transform of to in the toric chart is given by
If , then . Hence, for some . Since , we see that . Thus, the Assumption (*) in Theorem 32 of [13] is satisfied for on the toric chart .
By the above arguments (I)(III), the Assumption (*) in Theorem 32 of [13] is satisfied for the mixed polynomial germ and . Hence, by Theorem 32, it is concluded that the strict transform of via the toric modification is a real analytic manifold outside of , and a topological manifold as a germ at .
Moreover, we have the following theorem:
Theorem 15.
We set . The strict transform of via the toric modification is a real analytic manifold as a germ at .
Proof.
Recall the definition of in Theorem 32 of [13]. It is sufficient to prove that . The cones of whose vertices are all strictly positive are
For , we have . Recall that . Hence, we have
For , we have . For , we have . Hence, we have .
On the other hand, we see that , and moreover, . Thus it is concluded that . This completes the proof of Theorem 15. ∎
At the end of this paper, we present the following problem:
Problem 16.
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Does each have some mixed critical points on ?
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More generally, does each in the cases II V () of Table LABEL:strongly-mixed-whp-5cases have some mixed critical points on ?
We need another useful criteria for mixed critical points like Proposition 1 of [6].
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