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Singularities in positive characteristic, stratification and simplification of the singular locus

Algebraic Geometry 2011-06-14 v3

Abstract

We introduce an upper semi-continuous function that stratifies the highest multiplicity locus of a hypersurface in arbitrary characteristic (over a perfect field). The blow-up along the maximum stratum defined by this function leads to a form of simplification of the singularities, also known as a reduction to the monomial case.

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@article{arxiv.0807.4308,
  title  = {Singularities in positive characteristic, stratification and simplification of the singular locus},
  author = {Ana Bravo and Orlando Villamayor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4308},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Several typos corrected. Minor improvements on the presentation of the published paper

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