Resolution of Singularities
alg-geom
2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
This article is an exposition of an elementary constructive proof of canonical resolution of singularities in characteristic zero, presented in detail in Invent. Math. 128 (1997), 207-302. We define a new local invariant and get an algorithm for canonical desingularization by successively blowing up its maximum loci. The invariant can be described by local computations that provide equations for the centres of blowing up. We describe the origin of our approach and present the proof (in the hypersurface case) in parallel with a worked example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9709028,
title = {Resolution of Singularities},
author = {Edward Bierstone and Pierre D. Milman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9709028},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
45 pages, 7 Postscript figures, LATEX. To appear in Current Developments in Several Complex Variables, MSRI Proceedings, ed. M. Schneider and Y.-T. Siu, Cambridge University Press