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Resolution of Gorenstein rational singularities on a surface
I am reading Artin's notes "Lipman's Proof of Resolution of Singularities for Surfaces" from the book "Arithmetic Geometry". I am very confused by the proof of Lemma $6.5.$ (I am formulating it below ...
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Blowing up rational singularities
Let $X$ be a projective surface embedded into $\mathbb{P}^n_{\mathbb{C}}$ having at most rational singularities. Let $\tilde{X} \to X$ be the minimal resolution of $X$. Is it possible to embed $\tilde{...