Semistable reduction in characteristic 0
Abstract
In 2000 Abramovich and Karu proved that any dominant morphism of varieties of characteristic zero can be made weakly semistable by replacing by a smooth alteration and replacing the proper transform of by a modification . In the language of log geometry this means that is log smooth and saturated for appropriate log structures. Moreover, Abramovich and Karu formulated a stronger conjecture that can be even made semistable, which amounts to making smooth as well, and explained why this is the best resolution of one might hope for. In this paper, we solve the semistable reduction conjecture in the larger generality of finite type morphisms of quasi-excellent schemes of characteristic zero.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.03131,
title = {Semistable reduction in characteristic 0},
author = {Karim Adiprasito and Gaku Liu and Michael Temkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03131},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
22 pages, expansions on context and generality