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Oct 25, 2012 at 23:30 history edited Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 15, 2012 at 16:14 comment added roy smith In relation to this criterion and the codimension of singularities, it seems that Grothendieck's proof of Samuel's conjecture implies that at least for complete intersections X, in order for a small morphism to exist, the singular locus of X should not be of codimension > 3. (Otherwise X is locally factorial.) I.e. if X is a c.i. fourfold with isolated singularities, no small morphism exists. As example, the abel map is a non trivial small resolution of the (non factorial) theta divisor of a non hyperelliptic curve with g = 4,5.
Nov 25, 2010 at 2:07 history edited Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 2.5
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Nov 25, 2010 at 1:59 history edited Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 2.5
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Nov 19, 2010 at 21:53 vote accept JME
Nov 16, 2010 at 23:13 comment added JME Thanks Sandor, that was very useful. I think the criterion you explain is what some people call "Van der Waerden purity".
Nov 12, 2010 at 21:32 history edited Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 2.5
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Nov 7, 2010 at 18:46 history answered Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 2.5