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F-regular and F-pure rings vs. log terminal and log canonical singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the relationship of F-regular (resp. F-pure) rings and log terminal (resp. log canonical) singularities. Also, we extend the notions of F-regularity and F-purity to "F-singularities of pairs." The notions of F-regular and F-pure rings in characteristic p>0p>0 are characterized by a splitting of the Frobenius map, and define some classes of rings having "mild" singularities. On the other hand, there are notions of log terminal and log canonical singularities defined via resolutions of singularities in characteristic zero. These are defined also for pairs of a normal variety and a Q\Bbb Q-divisor Δ\Delta on it, and play an important role in birational algebraic geometry. As an analog of these singularities of pairs in characteristic zero, we define the notions of "F-singularities of pairs," namely strong F-regularity, divisorial F-regularity and F-purity for a pair (A,Δ)(A,\Delta) of a normal ring AA of characteristic p>0p > 0 and an effective Q\Bbb Q-divisor Δ\Delta on Y=SpecAY = Spec A. The main theorem of this paper asserts that, if KY+ΔK_Y + \Delta is Q\Bbb Q-Cartier, then the above three variants of F-singularitiesof pairs imply KLT, PLT and LC properties, respectively. We also prove some results for F-singularities of pairs which are analoguous to singularities of pairs in characteristic zero.

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@article{arxiv.math/0002054,
  title  = {F-regular and F-pure rings vs. log terminal and log canonical singularities},
  author = {Nobuo Hara and Kei-ichi Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0002054},
  year   = {2007}
}

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24 pages, AMS-TeX