Structural properties of the lattice cohomology of curve singularities

Abstract

The lattice cohomology of a reduced curve singularity is a bigraded ${\mathbb Z}[U]$-module ${\mathbb H}^*=\oplus_{q,n}{\mathbb H}^q_{2n}$, that categorifies the $\delta$-invariant and extract key geometric information from the semigroup of values. In the present paper we prove three structure theorems for this new invariant: (a) the weight-grading of the reduced cohomology is (just as in the case of the topological lattice cohomology of normal surface singularities) nonpositive; (b) the graded ${\mathbb Z}[U]$-module structure of ${\mathbb H}^0$ determines whether or not a given curve is Gorenstein; and finally (c) the lattice cohomology module ${\mathbb H}^0$ of any plane curve singularity determines its multiplicity.