Towards Transversality of Singular Varieties: Splayed Divisors
Towards Transversality of Singular Varieties: Splayed Divisors
We study a natural generalization of transversally intersecting smooth hypersurfaces in a complex manifold: hypersurfaces, whose components intersect in a transversal way but may be themselves singular. Such hypersurfaces will be called splayed divisors. A splayed divisor is characterized by a property of its Jacobian ideal. This yields an effective …