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Can nonflat deformations of singularities always produce Cohen-Macaulay rings?
To make the question in the title precise, let me phrase it like this. Consider a complete local ring
$$ A := \mathbb{C}[[x_1, \dotsc, x_n]]/(f_1, \dotsc, f_m) $$
and, for definiteness, assume that $...
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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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Normal forms of ADE singularities
Given a surface $X:f(x,y,z)=0\subset \mathbb{A}^{3}_{\mathbb{C}}$ with only ADE singularities, how does one determine the correct singularity type of $X$ by computing the normal forms?
Does a similar ...
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Krull dimension of the smooth locus
Let $R$ be a normal complete local domain of dimension $n \geq 4$. Does there exist a prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ of height $\dim(R) - 1$ such that $R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ is a regular local ring? In ...
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Deformation to normal cone of the exception divisor of a log-resolution
I am reading the paper Iterated vanishing cycles, convolution, and a motivic analogue of a conjecture of Steenbrink due to G. Guibert, F. Loeser, and M. Merle. The main tool, like a lot of papers in ...