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On the Volume of Isolated Singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

We give an equivalent definition of the local volume of an isolated singularity Vol_{BdFF}(X,0) given in [BdFF12] in the Q-Gorenstein case and we generalize it to the non-Q-Gorenstein case. We prove that there is a positive lower bound depending only on the dimension for the non-zero local volume of an isolated singularity if X is Gorenstein. We also give a non-Q-Gorenstein example with Vol_{BdFF}(X,0)=0, which does not allow a boundary \Delta such that the pair (X,\Delta) is log canonical.

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@article{arxiv.1301.6121,
  title  = {On the Volume of Isolated Singularities},
  author = {Yuchen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6121},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

12 pages. Final version. To appear in Compos. Math