English

Blowups with log canonical singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2021-07-21 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show that the minimum weight of a weighted blow-up of Ad\mathbf A^d with ε\varepsilon-log canonical singularities is bounded by a constant depending only on ε\varepsilon and dd. This was conjectured by Birkar. Using the recent classification of 44-dimensional empty simplices by Iglesias-Vali\~no and Santos, we work out an explicit bound for blowups of A4\mathbf A^4 with terminal singularities: the smallest weight is always at most 3232, and at most 66 in all but finitely many cases.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.06435,
  title  = {Blowups with log canonical singularities},
  author = {G. K. Sankaran and Francisco Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06435},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Sections 3.3 and 3.4 are completely new, and give a proof of Conjecture 1.2 (Birkar) in the general case. Title changed to reflect the increased generality. Minor changes and restructuring in other places

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