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Could anybody help me with examples of surfaces $X\subset\mathbb P^3$ (projective, over $\mathbb C$) having many isolated singularities of the type $A_1$ ($x^2+y^2+z^2=0$) or $A_2$ ($x^2+y^2+z^3=0$) and no other singular points? «Many» means «as close to the known upper bound (in terms of $\deg X$) as possible».

Thank you in advance,
Serge

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    $\begingroup$ For nodal surfaces, maybe this site would help oliverlabs.net/view.php?menuitem=168 $\endgroup$
    – BS.
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 15:34
  • $\begingroup$ What is the known upper bound? $\endgroup$
    – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 19:59
  • $\begingroup$ There is a nice paper by Bruce and Wall that might be of interest to you, in which they classify all possible singularities which may occur for cubic surfaces. $\endgroup$
    – Daniel Loughran
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 20:47

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There is an example of an octic with 84 A_2 singularities (known upper bound is 98) in arXiv:1108.1820, section 9.

Also, check out this paper http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505022

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For the case of surfaces of degree $\le 6$, you may consult Catanese, F.; Ceresa, G.: J. Pure Appl. Algebra 23 (1982), and, if you read Italian,

Ezio Stagnaro: Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 59 (1978), 179–198 (1979).

Octic surfaces with many nodes were constructed by Marco Kühnel: Geom. Dedicata 109 (2004), 189–195.

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