Dirk Siersma

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Mathematical Institute

Universiteit Utrecht
P.O.Box 80.010
3508 TA UTRECHT
The Netherlands

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D.Siersma "at" uu.nl

Preprints on ArXivMath

Preprints (since 1995)

On polynomial and meromorphic functions

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Singularites at Infinity and their Vanishing Cycles,
Preprint European Singularity Project, No 67; 1995.
Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal Vol 80, No. 3; December 1995; p 771-783.

Dirk Siersma, Job Smeltink,

Classification of singularities at infinity of polynomials of degree 4 in two variabales,
Preprint 945, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (February, 1996).
Published in: Georgian Mathematical Journal Vol 7 (2000), No 1; p. 179-190.

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Topology of polynomial functions and monodromy dynamics,
C. R. Acad. SCi. Paris, t. 327, Serie I,p. 655-660, 1998

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Singularities at infinity and their vanishing cycles, II. Monodromy.,
Preprint 1088, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (January, 1999)
Published in: Publications of the RIMS, Kyoto University, Vol 36, No 6 (2000), 659-679.

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

On the vanishing cycles and  of a meromorphic function on the complement of its poles.,
Preprint, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (May, 1999)
Published in: Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 354 (2004), 277-289

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,
Deformations of polynomials, boundary singularities and monodromy.
Preprint, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (July 2002)

Published in: Moscow Mathematical Journal, 3 (2) (2003), 661-697.

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Singularity Exchange at Infinity.

Preprint arXiv math.AG/0401396

Preprint 1295, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (Febrtuary 2004)

Published with title: Singularity exchange at the frontier of the space.

Real and complex singularities, 327-342, Trends Math., Birkhäuser, Basel, 2007.

 

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Curvature and Gauss-Bonnet defect of global affine hypersurfaces.
Preprint arXiv math.DG/0407056

Published in: Bull. Sci. Math. 130 (2006), no. 2, 111-122.

 

Sabir M. Gusein-Zade, Dirk Siersma

Deformations of Polynomials and their zeta functions.
Preprint arXiv. Math AG/0503450 . Russian pdf.

Published in: Sovrem. Mat. Prilozh. No. 33 (2005), 36--42;

translation in J. Math. Sci. (N. Y.) 144 (2007), no. 1, 3782-3788

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,
Betti Bounds of Polynomials
Preprint arXiv math.AG/111013678
Published in: Moscow Mathematical Journal, 11 (3) (2011), 599-615.    Shared Link

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,
Vanishing Cycles of Polynomials

Lecture Notes for CIMPA Research School: Singularities: algebra, geometry and applications.
August 2011, Kiev, Ukraine.

On lines on hypersurface

Jiang Guangfeng, Dirk Siersma,

Local embeddings of lines in singular surfaces ,
Preprint 1050, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (February, 1998).
Published in: Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 49 , 4 (1999), 1129-1147.

 

Guangfeng Jiang, Mutsuo Oka, Duc Tai Pho, Dirk Siersma,

Lines on Brieskorn-Pham Surfaces,
Tokyo Metropolitan University Mathematics Preprint Series; 1999 No. 3 (January 1999)
Published in: Kodai Mathematical Journal, Vol. 23, No2, pp. 214-223, June 2000.

On conflict sets

Dirk Siersma,

Voronoi Diagrams and Morse Theory of the Distance Function
Preprint 967, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (June, 1996).
Published in: O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen and E.B.V. Jensen (eds.),

Geometry in Present Day Science, World Scientific, Singapore, etc (1999), 187-208.

 

Dirk Siersma,

Properties of Conflict Sets in the Plane,
Preprint 1089, Department of Mathematics University Utrecht (February, 1999).
Published in: Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics 1998; Banach Center Publications Volume 50 (1999); p. 267 - 276

Jorge Sotomayor, Dirk Siersma, Ronaldo Garcia,

Curvatures of Conflict Surfaces in Euclidean 3-space,
Preprint 1090, Department of Mathematics University Utrecht (February, 1999).

Published in: Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics 1998;

Banach Center Publications Volume 50 (1999); p. 277-285.

R. Lindenbergh, W. van der Kallen, D. Siersma,
Configuration spaces and limits of Voronoi diagrams.
Manuscript september 2002.
Published in: Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics 2002; Banach Center Publication Volume 62 (2003); p. 183-195.

M. van Manen, D. Siersma,

The nine Morse generic tetrahedra
Manuscript october 2004.  Math.DG/0410251, published in

SIAM J. Discrete Math. 22 (2008), no. 2, 737-746

M. van Manen, D. Siersma,
Power Diagrams and their Applications
Manuscript august 2005.  Math.MG/0508037;

will be published in separate papers; the first see below: Medial axis and a Moment Map.

The second part: Power Diagrams and Morse Theory; Updated version (2014)

 

M. van Manen, D. Siersma,
Medial Axis and a Moment Map
Published in Demonstratio Math. 43 (2010), no. 2, 375–385

L.Birbrair, D. Siersma,
Metric Properties of Conflict Sets, Manuscript april 2007; Math.MG0704.3992
Published in Houston Mathematical Journal 35 (2009), no. 1, 73–80

On round functions

George Khimshiashvili, Dirk Siersma,

On minimal round functions,
Preprint 1118, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht (September, 1999).
Summary published in : Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Science, 164, nr 4 (2000); p 3-7
Part published as: Remarks on minimal round functions in: Geometry and Topology of Caustics - Caustics 2002;

Banach Center  Publications Volume 62 (2003); p. 159-172.

On non isolated singularities

Dirk Siersma,

The vanishing topology of non isolated singularities ,
Published in: New Developments in Singularity Theory
(Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge(UK);
 31 July- 11 August 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, etc (2001), p.447-472

 

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Vanishing Homology of Projective Hypersurfaces with 1-dimensional Singularities,

ArXiv Math.AG 1411.2640, 10 Nov 2014

European Journal of Mathematics (2017) 3: 565-586;  doi 10.1007/s40879-017-0151-7

 

Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar,

Milnor Fibre Homology via Deformation,

ArXiv Math.AG 1512.02840, 9 December 2015

(reference to section 4.4. of vStraten this is here)

In W.Decker et al. (eds), Singularities and Computer Algebra, Springer 2017, 305-322;

 

 

Dirk Siersma

Non reduced plane curve singularities with Betti1 = 0 and Bobadilla’s question

ArXiv Math.AG 1602.02989, November 2017

Toology and its Applications 234 (2018) 104-107

 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2017.11.029     Link to paper

On polygonal linkages and configurations

George Khimshiashvili, Dirk Siersma

Cyclic Configurations of planar multiple penduli

ICTP Preprint IC2009047 (june 2009), extended version published as:

Critical Configurations of planar Multiple Penduli

Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 195, No. 2, November 2013, p 198-212

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma, Alena Zhukova

Extremal Configurations of polygonal linkages. Oberwolfach Preprint OWP 2011-24 (september 2011)

Section 1-5 are published as Critical configurations of robot arms (see below)

Section 6-9 is updated as Extremal Configurations of Robot Arms in Three Dimensions (see below)

 

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma, Alena Zhukova

Critical configurations of planar robot arms ArXiv Math, DG january 2012 ;

published in Centr. Eur. J. Math 11(3) 2013 519-529

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma

Coulomb control of polygonal linkages, ArXiv Math, MG 1304.6214, April 2013

Published on line 17 March 2014 in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems

DOI 10.1007/s10883-014-9218-7

Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma

Motion Planning and Control of Planar Polygonal Linkage,

ArXiv Math, MG 14017860, January 2014

 

George Khimshiashvili, Dirk Siersma

Cross-Ratios of Quadrilateral Linkages,

ArXiv Math, MG1308.4007, August 2013, update November 2014

Published in: Journal of Singularities, Volume 13 ( 2015), 159-168; DOI: 10.5427/jsing.2015.13h

Dirk Siersma

Extremal Configurations of Robot Arms in Three Dimensions.

ArXiv Math, MG1403.5913, March 2014 updated November 2014.

(= updated version of sections 6-9 from Oberwolfach Preprint 2011-24)

Published in: Journal of Singularities volume 12 (2015), 180-190; DOI: 10.5427/jsing.2015.12

 

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma, Vladimir Zolotov

Point charges and Polygonal Linkages.

ArXiv Math, MG 1503.04463, March 2015

Published on line 26 june 2015 in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems

DOI 10.1007/s10883-015-9286-3

J. Dyn. Control Syst. 23 (2017) no 1, 1-17

 

 

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma

Equilibria of point charges on convex curves.

ArXiv Math, MG 1503.04284, March 2015

Journal of Geometry and Physics 98 (2015) 119-117

DOI 10.1016/j.geomphys.2015.07.024

 

George Khimshiashvili, Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma

Equilibria of three constraint point charges.

ArXiv Math, MG 1602.05464, February 2016

Journal of Geometry and Physics 106 (2016) 42-50

doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2016.03.006

 

 Gaiane Panina, Dirk Siersma

On the area of constrained polygonal linkages

ArXiv Math, MG 1702.07468, February 2017

 

Downloads of (selected) publications

1967: Dirk Siersma

Zuinige C.W.-complexen (Frugal C.W.-complexes) [in Dutch]

Doctoraal Scriptie (Master Thesis) Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1967.

1974: Dirk Siersma

Classification and Deformation of Singularities

Dissertation, University of Amsterdam, July 3, 1974

Classification and Deformation of singularities (second printing 1979)

Includes some corrections, and printed with 2 pages on one sheet.

1977: Dirk Siersma

Periodicities in Arnold's list of singularities

in: Real and Complex Singularities, Oslo 1976; P. Holm (editor)

 

1979: Dirk Siersma

Katastrofe-theorie [in Dutch]

Natuurkundige Voordrachten N.R. 57 (1979), 157-178

 

1981: Dirk Siersma

Singularities of functions on boundaries, Corners, etc

Quart. J. Math. Oxford (2), 32 (1981), 119-127

1983: Dirk Siersma

Isolated Line Singularities

Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Volume 4 (1983) part 2, 485-496

1991: Dirk Siersma

Vanishing Cycles and Special Fibres

Singularity Theory and its Applications, Warwick 1989, Part I

Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1462 (1991) 292-301

 1995: Dirk Siersma

A bouquet theorem for the Milnor fibre

J. Algebraic Geometry 4 (1995) 51-66

1995: Dirk Siersma, Mihai Tibar

Is the Polar Relative Monodromy of Finite Order ?  An Example.

Chinese Quaterly Journal of Mathematics 10 (1995) 78-85

2012: Dirk Siersma

Poincar'e and Analysis Situs, the beginning of algebraic topology

 Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 5/13 (2012) 196-200

 

2015:Dirk Siersma

Wiskunde met een gulle lach

Liber Amicorum voor Henk Broer bij zijn afscheid als gewoon hoogleraar te Groningen op 20 November 2015

 

Dissertations: Jiang, Tibar, Van Manen and Schrauwen

1991: Rob Schrauwen

Series of Singularities and Their Topology,

Dissertation, University of Utrecht (February 11, 1991).

 

1992: Mihai Tibar

The Lefschetz Number of a Monodromy Transformation

Dissertation Universiteit Utrecht 21 september 1992

1998: Jiang Guangfeng

Functions with non-isolated singularities on singular spaces.,

Dissertation, University of Utrecht (February 16, 1998).

 

2003: Martijn van Manen

The Geometry of Conflict Sets

Dissertation, University of Utrecht (September 8, 2003)

 

Publication of Nicolaas H. Kuiper

He was my teacher. Most of his publications can be accessed over internet.

Below you find a prepublication the Thom conjecture which is not yet available.

1991: Nicolaas H. Kuiper

On gradient curves of an analytic function near a critical point.

IHES/M/91/36 June 1991

 

 

 

 

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Last updated: August 2017