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Inversion of adjunction for rational and Du Bois pairs

Algebraic Geometry 2016-08-03 v5 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We prove several results about the behavior Du Bois singularities and Du Bois pairs in families. Some of these generalize existing statements about Du Bois singularities to the pair setting while others are new even in the non-pair setting. We also prove a new inversion of adjunction result for Du Bois and rational pairs. In the non-pair setting this asserts that if a family over a smooth base has a special fiber X0X_0 with Du Bois singularities and the general fiber has rational singularities, then the total space has rational singularities near X0X_0.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7193,
  title  = {Inversion of adjunction for rational and Du Bois pairs},
  author = {Sándor J Kovács and Karl Schwede},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7193},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages. More typos corrected and other minor fixes. To appear in Algebra and Number Theory