Quasihomogeneous isolated singularities in terms of syzygies and foliations

Abstract: One considers quasihomogeneous isolated singularities of hypersurfaces in arbitrary dimensions through the lenses of three apparently quite apart themes: syzygies, singularity invariants, and foliations. In the first of these, one adds to the well-known result of Saito's a syzygy-theoretic characterization of a quasihomogeneous singularity affording an effective computational criterion. In the second theme, one explores the Milnor-Tjurina difference number from a commutative algebra viewpoint. Building on the Briancon-Skoda theorem and exponent, we extend previously known inequalities by Dimca and Greuel to arbitrary dimension and provide algebraic formulas involving the syzygy-theoretic part and reduction exponents. In the last theme one recovers and bring up to an algebraic light a result of Camacho and Movasati by establishing a couple of characterizations of quasihomogeneous isolated singularities in terms of the generators of the module of invariant vector fields.