Equivariant deformations of isolated singularities and applications

Abstract

In this paper, we develop an equivariant version of the classical theory of deformations of germs of complex spaces in the presence of complex Lie groups. As a tradition, the main result is the existence of equivariant semi-universal deformations of germs of complex spaces in the reductive case and the non-existence in general in the non-reductive case. The latter is justified by an explicit counterexample. In particular, it generalizes Grauert-Donin's existence theorem to the equivariant settings and Ferrer-Puerta-Slodowy's one to the case of reductive complex Lie groups. Several applications to deformations of pairs, rigidity and actions on Milnor fibers are given.