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Oct 11, 2020 at 21:16 history edited Donu Arapura CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 3, 2020 at 7:11 comment added guest0803 @Chris That is unfortunately not correct. Blow-ups already give you examples where discriminant is not of pure codim 1.
Sep 2, 2020 at 11:41 history edited Donu Arapura CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 2, 2020 at 6:56 comment added Chris Isn't the discriminant always of pure codimension one (if non-empty)?
Sep 1, 2020 at 21:41 vote accept guest0803
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Sep 1, 2020 at 21:33 comment added guest0803 Thanks! I will look forward to it. Somehow I have the feeling that such $f$ (additional assumption inclusive) cannot have divisorial discriminant locus. But I don't have an argument or a counter-example.
Sep 1, 2020 at 21:10 comment added Donu Arapura You're welcome. OK, with added assumptions about direct images, I agree that the local monodromy is trivial. Surprisingly, this is not enough to guarantee smoothness. I'll expand my answer later.
Sep 1, 2020 at 20:48 comment added guest0803 Dear Prof. Arapura, thanks so much for the beautiful answer. And of course, I meant to also add that $R^if_*\mathbb{C}$ are all local systems (if I understand correctly the comment about local monodromy is true in this case.). Under this additional assumption, can one conclude smoothness of $f$? Since the answer is really helpful and explicit, I will leave the question as it is and add the part about the local system assumption at the end.
Sep 1, 2020 at 16:54 history answered Donu Arapura CC BY-SA 4.0