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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 history edited CommunityBot
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Nov 9, 2014 at 20:23 answer added Karl Schwede timeline score: 16
Nov 7, 2014 at 1:18 comment added Piotr Achinger I think the claim above could follow from some results in Artin's paper "Algebraization of Formal Moduli II", where instead of $Z_n$ we consider their limit (the formal completion). The trick seems to be to choose an appropriate $n\gg 0$.
Nov 7, 2014 at 1:16 comment added Piotr Achinger Just a comment. One might hope for the following: given a variety $X$ and a proper birational $f:X'\to X$, let $Z\subseteq X$ be the locus where $f$ is not a local isomorphism (with reduced subscheme structure). For $n\geq 1$, let $Z_n$ denote the $n$-th infinitesimal thickening of $Z$ in $X$. Then for $n\gg 0$, $X$ is the pushout of $Z_n \leftarrow f^{-1}(Z_n)\to X'$. To answer your question, we would apply this to the normalization map (as hinted by Karl Schwede).
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