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.