Abstract:
V. I. Arnold has classified simple (i.e., having no moduli for the classification)
singularities (function germs), and also simple boundary singularities:
function germs invariant with respect to the action
$\sigma(x_1;y_1,\dots,y_n)=(-x_1;y_1,\dots,y_n)$
of the group $\mathbb{Z}_2$.
In particular, it was shown that a function germ (a boundary singularity germ)
is simple if and only if the intersection form (respectively, the restriction of the
intersection form
to the subspace of anti-invariant cycles) of a germ in
$3+4s$
variables stable equivalent to the one under consideration
is negative definite and if and only if the (equivariant) monodromy group
on the corresponding subspace is finite.
We formulate and prove analogs of these statements
for function germs invariant with respect to an arbitrary action of the
group $\mathbb{Z}_2$,
and also for corner singularities.