Toroidal varieties and the weak Factorization Theorem
Abstract
The main goal of the present paper is two-fold. First we extend the theory of toroidal embeddings introduced by Kempf, Knudsen, Mumford and Saint-Donat to the class of toroidal varieties with stratifications (which is the main body of the paper). Second we give a proof of the following weak factorization theorem as an application and illustration of the theory: A birational map between complete nonsingular varieties over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic zero is a composite of blow ups and blow downs with smooth centers. Another proof of the weak factorization theorem appeared in a joint paper with Abramovich, Karu and Matsuki (math.AG/9904135) In that paper the theorem is stated and proven in general for proper algebraic and analytic spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/9904076,
title = {Toroidal varieties and the weak Factorization Theorem},
author = {Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9904076},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
69 pages, a revised version with conceptual simplifications. The present version is self-contained and it does not rely on weak factorization theorem for toric varieties