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Functorial embedded resolution via weighted blowings up

Algebraic Geometry 2024-09-18 v3

Abstract

We provide a procedure for resolving, in characteristic 0, singularities of a variety XX embedded in a smooth variety YY by repeatedly blowing up the worst singularities, in the sense of stack-theoretic weighted blowings up. No history, no exceptional divisors, and no logarithmic structures are necessary to carry this out; the steps are explicit geometric operations requiring no choices; and the resulting algorithm is efficient. A similar result was discovered independently by McQuillan in a manuscript posted on this archive simultaneously.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07106,
  title  = {Functorial embedded resolution via weighted blowings up},
  author = {Dan Abramovich and Michael Temkin and Jarosław Włodarczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07106},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Introduction rewritten and significantly expanded, proofs streamlined, references updated

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