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Consider a polynomial $f$ defined over a field $k$, the multiplicity is perhaps the most naive measurement of the singularities of $f$. This paper describes the first steps toward understanding a much more subtle measure of singularities…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Angélica Benito , Eleonore Faber , Karen E. Smith

We introduce and study a log discrepancy function on the space of semivaluations centered on an integral noetherian scheme of positive characteristic. Our definition shares many properties with the analogue in characteristic zero; we prove…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Eric Canton

We compute the $F$-pure threshold of some non-principal ideals which satisfy a geometric generic condition about their Newton polyhedron. We also contribute some evidence in favor of the conjectured equality between the $F$-pure threshold…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Wágner Badilla-Céspedes , Edwin León-Cardenal

For a normal F-finite variety $X$ and a boundary divisor $\Delta$ we give a uniform description of an ideal which in characteristic zero yields the multiplier ideal, and in positive characteristic the test ideal of the pair $(X,\Delta)$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Manuel Blickle , Karl Schwede , Kevin Tucker

We characterize the ideals $I$ of $\mathcal O_n$ of finite colength whose integral closure is equal to the integral closure of an ideal generated by pure monomials. This characterization, which is motivated by an inequality proven by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Carles Bivià-Ausina

We give a value for the $F$-pure threshold at the maximal homogeneous ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ of the symmetric determinantal ring over a field of prime characteristic. The answer is characteristic independent, so we immediately get the log…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Justin Fong

We develop a new cohomology theory in characteristic p>0, the so called F-gauge cohomology, a cohomology with values in the category of so-called F-gauges, which refines the cristalline cohomology. In this first paper we mainly discuss the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Jean-Marc Fontaine , Uwe Jannsen

In this paper, we study a positive characteristic analogue of the centers of log canonicity of a pair $(R, \Delta)$. We call these analogues centers of $F$-purity. We prove positive characteristic analogues of subadjunction-like results,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Karl Schwede

Introduced by Takagi and Watanabe, the F-pure threshold is an invariant defined in terms of the Frobenius homomorphism. While it finds applications in various settings, it is primarily used as a local invariant. The purpose of this note is…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Alessandro De Stefani , Luis Núñez-Betancourt , Ilya Smirnov

Given a hypersurface defined by $f$ in a smooth complex algebraic variety $X$, and a point $P$ on this hypersurface, we consider the invariant $\beta_P(f)$ given by the log canonical threshold at $P$ of ${\mathfrak m}_P\cdot J_f$, where…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Mircea Mustaţă

We study log canonical thresholds (also called global log canonical threshold or $\alpha$-invariant) of $\mathbb{R}$-linear systems. We prove existence of positive lower bounds in different settings, in particular, proving a conjecture of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Caucher Birkar

We consider the following conjecture: if X is a smooth projective variety over a field of characteristic zero, then there is a dense set of reductions X_s of X to positive characteristic such that the action of the Frobenius morphism on the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2011-06-02 Mircea Mustata , Vasudevan Srinivas

It is shown that the log-canonical threshold of a curve with an isolated singularity is computed by the term ideal of the curve in a suitable system of local parameters at the singularity. The proof uses the Enriques diagram of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-06 Marian Aprodu , Daniel Naie

We introduce a new variant of tight closure and give an interpretation of adjoint ideals via this tight closure. As a corollary, we prove that a log pair $(X,\Delta)$ is plt if and only if the modulo $p$ reduction of $(X,\Delta)$ is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shunsuke Takagi

Building on results of Koll\'ar, we prove Shokurov's ACC Conjecture for log canonical thresholds on smooth varieties, and more generally, on varieties with quotient singularities.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Lawrence Ein , Mircea Mustata

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a characteristic-zero lifting of an object in positive characteristic by means of ``skeletons''. Using this notion, we relate invariants of singularities in positive characteristic to their…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Shihoko Ishii

The F-thresholds are characteristic p analogs of the jumping coefficients for multiplier ideals in characteristic zero. In this article we give an alternative description of the F-thresholds of an ideal in a regular and F--finite ring $R$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-18 Manuel Blickle , Mircea Mustaţǎ , Karen E. Smith

Generalizing work of Smith and Hara, we give a new characterization of log-terminal singularities for finitely generated algebras over $\mathbb C$, in terms of purity properties of ultraproducts of characteristic $p$ Frobenii. The first…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Schoutens

We prove that if Y is a hypersurface of degree d in P^n with isolated singularities, then the log canonical threshold of (P^n,Y) is at least min{n/d,1}. Moreover, if d is at least n+1, then we have equality if and only if Y is the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lawrence Ein , Mircea Mustata

In this paper we study singularities defined by the action of Frobenius in characteristic $p > 0$. We prove results analogous to inversion of adjunction along a center of log canonicity. For example, we show that if $X$ is a Gorenstein…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-18 Karl Schwede