Factoring 3-fold flips and divisorial contractions to curves
Algebraic Geometry
2009-10-23 v1
Abstract
We show that 3-fold terminal flips and divisorial contractions to a curve may be factored by a sequence of weighted blow-ups, flops, blow-downs to a locally complete intersection curve in a smooth 3-fold or divisorial contractions to a point.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4209,
title = {Factoring 3-fold flips and divisorial contractions to curves},
author = {Jungkai A. Chen and Christopher D. Hacon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4209},
year = {2009}
}