Questions tagged [resolution-of-singularities]
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Do there exist linear relations between exceptional divisors
Let $X$ be an isolated, Gorenstein singularity of dimension at least $2$ and $\pi: \widetilde{X} \to X$ be a resolution of singularities. Let $E$ be the exceptional divisor and $E_1,...,E_r$ be the ...
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References on Namikawa-Weyl group
What are the most reasonable references on the definition of the Namikawa-Weyl groups and the first results about them?
In particular, are there more recent (or more educational) texts than the ...
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Preimage by birational maps
I am looking for an example (I guess that in complex projective space $\mathbb{P}^{n}$ is good) such that satisfy the following condition (in non trivial case, for this assume $X \neq \tilde{X}$):
Let ...
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plumbing description of resolution of ADE singularities
Let $G$ be a finite subgroup of $SU(2)$ and consider the quotient of the unit ball $B\subset \mathbb{C}^{2}$ by $G$. The result, denoted by $V$, has a boundary $S^{3}/G$ and has an ADE singularity at $...
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$2$-dimensional complete local normal domain with rational singularity that has exactly one exceptional curve
Let $(R, \mathfrak m)$ be a complete local normal domain of dimension $2$ with residue field $R/\mathfrak m$ algebraically closed and characteristic $0$. Assume Spec$(R)$ has rational singularity, let ...
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Does existance of crepant resolution of tangent space imply existance of crepant resolution globally in the algebraic setting?
Suppose $X$ is smooth proper algebraic $\mathbb C$-variety with algebraic action of a finite abelian group $G$. Suppose I know that
$X/G$ (good geometric quotient) exists and it is normal Gorenstein ...
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Simultaneous Log resolutions for both varieties and divisors
Let $X$ be a normal variety and $D \subset X$ be a prime divisor which is also normal. It is well-known that we can take a resolution $f: W \to X$ of $X$ such that
$$\DeclareMathOperator{\Supp}{\...
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Is there a "minimal" Whitney stratification of a complex hypersurface?
Let $X\subset \mathbb C^n$ be a complex hypersurface (given by $F=0$ where $F$ is a polynomial). It is known then that $X$ admits a Whitney stratification. This is a decomposition of $X$ into smooth ...
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Smooth normalization and blow-up of the exceptional locus
Let $n:\widetilde X\rightarrow X$ be the normalization of a complex (quasi-projective) variety $X$. Assume $\widetilde X$ is smooth, that $n$ is an isomorphism outside a smooth connected subvariety $Y\...
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Computing the invariants of ball quotient surfaces
The two-dimensional complex unit ball $B$ has group of biholomorphic automorphisms $PU(2,1)$.
If $Γ$ is an arithmetic subgroup of $PU(2,1)$, the quotient $Γ\text{\\}B$ is an orbifold.
Taking its ...
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Resolution of 3-fold quotient singularities
This is exercise 1.10 from Reid's Young person's guide to canonical singularites.
Let $X=\mathbb{C}^3/ \mu_3$ where $\epsilon \in \mu_3$ acts by
$$ (x,y,z) \to (\epsilon x, \epsilon y, \epsilon^2 z).$$...
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When do crepant resolutions of quotients of Calabi-Yau varieties exist?
Suppose I have a Gorenstein variety $X$ over $\mathbb{C}$ with trivial canonical bundle, and the action of a finite group $G$ on $X$, which acts trivially on the canonical bundle.
Question. When does ...
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Partial crepant resolution in codimension 2
Let $\xi_5$ be a 5-root of the unity. We consider $\mathbb{C}^4/G$, where $G=\left\langle \sigma,\tau\right\rangle$, with $\sigma$ and $\tau$ the automorphisms given, respectively, by the following ...
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Resolution graph of higher dimensional ADE singularities
I am looking for different configurations of the exceptional divisors arising from blowing up a higher dimensional ADE singularity (see p. 240 of this article of Bruns for a description of such ...
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Normality of a blow up
Let $X$ be a quasi-projective normal $\mathbb C$-variety and $Y\subset X$ a smooth subvariety such that $X$ is normally flat along $Y$ (i.e. the normal cone of $X$ along $Y$ is flat over $Y$).
Is the ...
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Blowing-up the exceptional locus of a (small) resolution
Let $f:\widetilde X\rightarrow Y$ be a proper morphism between smooth complex varieties which is birational unto its image $X=f(X)$. Assume the singular locus $W\subset X$ of $X$ is smooth and that $...
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Nice small resolution and normality of blow-up
Let $X$ be a complex variety whose singular locus is a smooth variety $Z$.
Let $f:Y\rightarrow X$ be a small resolution of $X$ such that $f^{-1}(z)$ is smooth for any $z\in Z$ and $\dim(f^{-1}(z))$ is ...
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Symplectic resolutions amongst cotangent bundles
It is known that a generalized flag variety $X=T^*(G/P)$ is a (symplectic) resolution of singularities of its affinization $X^\text{aff}\mathrel{:=}\operatorname{Spec}(H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X))$. In type ...
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Perfectoid approach to resolution of singularities in char $p$
Since perfectoid techniques have built a bridge between char $0$ and char $p$ worlds, it is conceivable that they can be applied to resolution of singularities in char $p$ using their successful ...
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Factorization of birational maps in char $p$
So I was reading about the factorization result that any birational map between smooth varieties is composition of blow-ups and blow-downs with smooth centers. It is apparently true only in ...
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Realizing a set as the image of a smooth map
Consider the following subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$:
$S = \{ (x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^2 : |y| \leq |x|^{3/2} \}$
(See here for a plot on Wolfram Alpha.)
The origin $(0, 0)$ is a kind of singular point of $S$....
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Cohomology of resolution of singularity
If $X,Y$ are smooth projective schemes, then if we have a surjection $f:X\to Y$, we have an injective map on étale cohomology, or more generally on any Weil cohomology (see https://mathoverflow.net/q/...
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Second chern class of a rank 2 bundle
Here is another question from the paper "Second Chern class and Riemann-Roch for vector bundles on resolutions of surfaces singularities" by J. Wahl. This is at the beginning of the section $...
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Divisorial contraction to a non-normal variety
Consider a divisorial contraction $f:X\rightarrow Y$, between projective varieties, contracting an irreducible divisor $D\subset X$ to a subvariety $Z\subset Y$ of codimension at least two, and which ...
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Singularities of PL embedding of surface in a contractible 4-manifold
I am trying to understand the article "A solution to a conjecture of Zeeman" by Akbulut, but I am not an expert in PL-geometry.
As far as I understand, two statements should be true, but I ...
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Definition of Q gorenstein variety
I have a question about the definition of Q-Gorenstein variety.
I saw a definition of Q-Gorenstein variety：for a normal variety $X$, it's Q-Gorenstein if the canonical divisor is Q Cartier. I wonder ...
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Would full resolution of singularities have cohomological implications beyond the alteration theory?
De Jong's result on alterations allows one to show the potential semistability of certain Galois representations arising from cohomology of varieties (among other things). If we knew the existence of ...
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Resolution of pairs in characteristic p
Let $R$ be a complete DVR of characteristic $p$, say $R=\mathbb{F}_p[[t]]$, and $X$ be a reduced scheme of finite type over $R$. Let also $X_s$ denote the special fiber of $X$. If I understand ...
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Separable morphism of curves
A proof from Janos Kollar's Lectures on Resolution of Singularities Kollar (p 37) works as follows:
Theorem 1.58 (M. Noether, 1871). Let $k$ be an algebraically closed
field and $C \subset \...
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Embedded normalization
Let $S$ be an irreducible surface in a 3-dimensional variety $X$ (everything taking place over $\mathbb{C}$, say). By Hironaka's therorem, we know for sure that there is an embedded resolution of $S$, ...
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Globalization of Brieskorn-Grothendieck resolution
Brieskorn (1970) showed that for semiuniversal deformation of rational double points surface singularities $X\to S$, there is a finite base change $S'\to S$, such that the new family $f:X\times_{S}S'\...
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Is toroidalization local?
Let $f:X \to Y$ be a surjective morphism of smooth projective varieties, $D$ be a simple normal crossings divisor on $X$ and $U_Y \subset Y$ be an open subset over which $(X,D)$ is log smooth (in the ...
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Log canonical centers of toric (and toroidal) varieties
Q1: Let $(X,B)$ be a toric variety. There exists a toric resolution of singularities $f:(Y,E) \to (X,B)$. Here is my question:
Is any lc center of $(X,B)$ an irreducible component of an intersection ...
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Birational model of a log smooth pair
Given a log smooth pair $(X,B)$ with a reduced boundary divisor $B$, consider a birational model $\pi:X' \to X$ and a boundary divisor $B'$ which is given by $K_{X'}+B'=\pi^*(K_X+B)$. Here is my ...
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Resolution graphs in the sense of Némethi
The following definitions are from lecture notes of Némethi. A surface singularity $(X,0)$ is defined by $$(X,0) = (\{ f_1 = \ldots = f_m=0 \}) \subset \mathbb (\mathbb{C}^n,0),$$ where $f_i : (\...
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Artin's "On isolated rational singularities of surfaces"
My question deals with Michael Artin's paper "On isolated rational singularities of surfaces"; more precisely the proof of Theorem 4 on page 133. Here the relevant excerpt:
The Setting: Let ...
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Are there any explicit (prime-to-l) alterations for interesting varieties (or schemes)?
I have read that it is easier to find regular alterations of varieties than their resolutions of singularities (moreover, I believed in this sentence when I read it). My question is: do there exist ...
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Singular locus of a linear system of hyperplane sections
Let $X\subset\mathbb{P}^N$ be a rational smooth projective irreducible non degenerated variety of dimension $n=\dim(X)$ and let $$\mathcal{H}=|\mathcal{O}_X(1) \otimes\mathcal{I}_{{p_1}^2,\dots,{p_l}^...
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canonical divisor on singular curves with nodal point
What's the definition of canonical divisor(or whatever related concept) on singular curve with nodal point. More generally, what the definition of canonical divisor on a singular variety X, which is ...
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Pushforward of locally free sheaves and resolution of singularities
Let $X$ be an noetherian, affine, isolated of dimension at least $2$ and $\pi:\widetilde{X} \to X$ a resolution of singularities. Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a locally-free sheaf on $\widetilde{X}$ such that ...
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Terminal and log canonical singularities
Let $D$ be a divisor with at most terminal singularities in a smooth projective variety $X$. Is the pair $(X,D)$ log canonical?
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Test rational singularities after forming invariants
Let $R$ be a normal local domain of dimension $2$ and odd residue characteristic endowed with the action of the finite group $G \cong \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$. Suppose that the ring of invariants $R^G$ ...
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Resolution of rational surfaces
Let $S$ be a rational singular complete algebraic surface over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $\phi:\tilde{S}\to S$ be a resolution of singularities with minimal possible Picard rank (i.e. minimal $\mathrm{dim}(...
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Generators of a graded algebra defining bundle over elliptic curve
I have a question about a statement from P. Wagreich's paper "Elliptic Singularities of Surfaces" (page 425):
We consider an elliptic curve $X$ and a line bundle (=invertible sheaf) $L$ on $X$.
Then,...
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Toric Fan for the Du Val's singularities D_n and E_n
Let us consider the Du Val's singularities.
i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Val_singularity.
It is well known that they are classified by ADE, because the exceptional divisors arising in the ...
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Igusa zeta functions of univariate polynomials: $\mathbb{Z}_p$ or $\mathbb{Q}_p$ in this statement
Let $f\in\mathbb{Z}_p[X]$ and let $Z_{f,p}(T)\in\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}(T)$ be the $p$-adic Igusa zeta polynomial (i.e. $Z_{f,p}(p^{-s})$ is the $p$-adic Igusa zeta function in the complex variable $s$, with ...
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Intuition behind RDP (Rational Double Points)
Let $S$ be a surface (so a $2$-dimensional proper $k$-scheme) and $s$ a singular point which is a rational double point.
One common characterisation of a RDP is that under sufficient conditions there ...
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On mixed $p$-adic Hodge theory
Does mixed $p$-adic Hodge theory exist? Can we extend the scope of comparison theorems using simplicial resolutions a la Deligne? Do we get 3 opposite filtrations as in classical mixed Hodge theory, ...
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Bijective restriction of the normalization morphism
Let $X$ be an integral separated scheme of finite type over $\mathbb{C}$. Consider the normalization morphism $f:X'\rightarrow X$. Can we always find an affine open $U\subset X'$ such that $f|_U:U\...
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Infinitesimal deformation of strict transform
Let $X$ be an affine, complex surface with isolated singularities and $\pi:\widetilde{X} \to X$ be a resolution of singularities (not necessarily minimal) i.e., $\widetilde{X}$ is non-singular and $\...
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