Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1977

Abstract

Two well known results concerning normal complex spaces are the following. First, the singular set of a normal complex space has codimension at least two. Second, this property characterizes normality for complex spaces which are local complete intersections. This second result is a theorem of Abhyankar [1] which generalizes Oka’s theorem. The purpose of this paper is to prove analogues of these facts for the class of weakly normal complex spaces, which were introduced by Andreotti-Norguet [3] in a study of the space of cycles on an algebraic variety. A weakly normal complex space can have singularities in codimension one, but it will be shown that an obvious class of such singularities is generic. © 1977 Pacific Journal of Mathematics. All rights reserved.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

First Page

297

Last Page

301

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