2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/62405We 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.9 pages. To appear in "Trends in Singularities", Libgober, Tibar, eds. (Birkhaeuser Trends in Mathematics)Algebraic Geometrytext