Generic sections of essentially isolated determinantal singularities

We study the essentially isolated determinantal singularities (EIDS), defined by Ebeling and Gusein-Zade [S. M. Guseĭn-Zade and W. Èbeling, On the indices of 1-forms on determinantal singularities, Tr. Mat. Inst. Steklova 267 (2009) 119–131], as a generalization of isolated singularity. We prove in dimension [Formula: see text], a minimality theorem for the Milnor number of a generic hyperplane section of an EIDS, generalizing the previous results by Snoussi in dimension [Formula: see text]. We define strongly generic hyperplane sections of an EIDS and show that they are still EIDS. Using strongly general hyperplanes, we extend a result of Lê concerning the constancy of the Milnor number.