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We discuss the evidence for and implications of a conjecture that the universal abelian cover of a ℚ-Gorenstein surface singularity with finite local homology (i.e., the singularity link is a ℚ-homology sphere) is a complete intersection singularity.
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Neumann, W.D., Wahl, J. (2002). Universal Abelian Covers of Surface Singularities. In: Libgober, A., Tibăr, M. (eds) Trends in Singularities. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8161-6_8
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