%0 Journal Article %T Cotangent cohomology of rational surface singularities %A Klaus Altmann %A Jan Stevens %J Mathematics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s002220050345 %X We show that the number of generators of the n-th cotangent cohomology group (n >=2) is the same for all rational surface singularities Y. For a large class of rational surface singularities, including quotient singularities, this number is also the dimension. For them we obtain an explicit formula for the corresponding Poincare series. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809132v1