Smoothing of surface singularities via equivariant smoothing of lci covers

Abstract: We provide some results of the smoothing of surface singularities by Looijenga-Wahl and study smoothing of isolated surface singularities induced by equivariant smoothing of locally complete intersection ($\lci$) singularities. We classify the situation where the smoothing of a simple elliptic singularity, a cusp singularity or its cyclic quotient is induced by the equivariant smoothing of the $\lci$ covers.