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Abhyankar's Work on Dicritical Divisors

Commutative Algebra 2017-07-24 v1

Abstract

We discuss the work of Abhyankar on dicritical divisors with a special focus on the algebraic aspects of this work. We also discuss related work on local quadratic transforms, infinitely near points and Rees valuation rings of an ideal.

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@article{arxiv.1707.06733,
  title  = {Abhyankar's Work on Dicritical Divisors},
  author = {William Heinzer and David Shannon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06733},
  year   = {2017}
}

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21 pages

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