Timeline for Why are normal crossing divisors nice?
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| Jun 6, 2010 at 15:26 | vote | accept | Makhalan Duff | ||
| May 6, 2010 at 20:43 | comment | added | JS Milne | Hironaka proved that a smooth variety can always be realized as an open subvariety of a smooth projective variety in such a way that the boundary is a divisor with normal crossings. | |
| May 6, 2010 at 20:03 | comment | added | Makhalan Duff | "What is always possible is to demand that the complement be a divisor with normal crossings." - can you elaborate on that? | |
| May 6, 2010 at 19:57 | history | answered | Torsten Ekedahl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |