Arnold's spectral sequence

In mathematics, Arnold's spectral sequence (also spelled Arnol'd) is a spectral sequence used in singularity theory and normal form theory as an efficient computational tool for reducing a function to canonical form near critical points. It was introduced by Vladimir Arnold in 1975.[1][2][3]

Definition

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It is a spectral sequence for the filtered de Rham complex with

  • The filtration coming from increasing order of poles along discriminant loci (Diagonals)
  • E1-page has differential forms that have logarithmic singularities along the diagonals
  • The differential encodes the relationships among the singular forms[4]

References

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  1. ^ Vladimir Arnold "Spectral sequence for reduction of functions to normal form", Funct. Anal. Appl. 9 (1975) no. 3, 81–82.
  2. ^ Victor Goryunov, Gábor Lippner, "Simple framed curve singularities" in Geometry and Topology of Caustics. Polish Academy of Sciences. 2006. pp. 86–91.
  3. ^ Majid Gazor, Pei Yu, "Spectral sequences and parametric normal forms", Journal of Differential Equations 252 (2012) no. 2, 1003–1031.
  4. ^ Zhang, Wei. "HI-SLAM: Monocular Real-Time Dense Mapping With Hybrid Implicit Fields_supp2-3347131.mp4". doi.org. doi:10.1109/lra.2023.3347131/mm1. Retrieved 2025-07-11.