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A problem for isolated singularities of surfaces

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 19 references
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We study the extension of the conformal structure of a Riemann surface, obtained as a submanifold of $\mathbf R^n$, across an isolated singular point, under hypotheses that are metric rather than analytic. The main result (1989) is that an isolated singularity is $\textbf{conformally point-like}$ (conformal to a punctured disc) whenever it is $\textbf{$M$-regular}$: the pair (surface minus the point, the point) satisfies a Whitney condition, and the length of the spherical slice $S(0,r)\cap E$ decreases at most linearly in $r$, a condition described as ``metric decay''. This is proved via a modulus-of-rings (extremal-length) argument, generalizing the classical planar technique to submanifolds of $\mathbf R^n$. Two classes of examples are treated: surfaces of revolution generated by a single curve, and subanalytic surfaces, for which $M$-regularity is verified directly from Hironaka's structure theory, giving as a corollary that every isolated singularity of an orientable subanalytic surface is conformally point-like. A further original result is a $C^\infty$ counterexample showing that a strict Whitney condition alone does $\textbf{not}$ imply the linear length bound: the two hypotheses in the definition of $M$-regularity are independent.

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