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Semistable reduction in characteristic 0

Algebraic Geometry 2019-06-18 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In 2000 Abramovich and Karu proved that any dominant morphism fXBf\:X\to B of varieties of characteristic zero can be made weakly semistable by replacing BB by a smooth alteration BB' and replacing the proper transform of XX by a modification XX'. In the language of log geometry this means that fXBf'\:X'\to B' is log smooth and saturated for appropriate log structures. Moreover, Abramovich and Karu formulated a stronger conjecture that fXBf'\:X'\to B' can be even made semistable, which amounts to making XX' smooth as well, and explained why this is the best resolution of ff 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

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