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Is every normalization a blowup?
I asked this at math.stackexchange, but received no reply.
Is the normalization of a variety always a blowup along some coherent ideal sheaf? If not, I would like to see a concrete counter-example.
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Why the following quasi isomorphism implies the morphism to be a resolution (a step in the paper A characterization of rational singularities)
I was reading the paper A Characterization of Rational Singularities by Professor Kovács.
The main theorem is stated as follows:
THEOREM 1. Let $\phi: Y \rightarrow X$ be a morphism of varieties over ...
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Definition of canonical pair
Let $(X,D)$ be a pair and $f:Y\rightarrow X$ a log resolution. Write
$$
K_Y + \widetilde{D} = f^{*}(K_X) + \sum_{i}a_iE_i
$$
where $\widetilde{D}$ is the strict transform of $D$. I found the following ...
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Every locally free sheaf is Cohen-Macaulay on complex variety with at canonical singualities?
Suppose $X$ is a normal complex space with at most singularities, can we say any locally free sheaf on it is Cohen-Macauly?
Recall that a coherent sheaf $\mathcal{F}$ over $X$ is called (maximal) ...
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Discrepancy of a divisor over a different model
I also asked this question on MathStackExchange but receive no answers.
I'm reading Koll'ar and Mori's book about singularity theory. They state the following lemma without proof:
Lemma 2.30. Let $f:...
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Blowing-up a non reduced fiber
Let $X\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^2$ be a smooth conic bundle with a non reduced fiber $F$, and $\widetilde{X}$ the blow-up of $X$ along $F$ with exceptional divisor $F\times\mathbb{P}^1$.
I expect $\...
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Surfaces with rational double points
Let $S\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ a surface fibered in conics over a field. Assume that $S$ has a single non reduced fiber $F$ with two points of type $A_1$ on it.
Blowing-up the two points and ...
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Singularities of surfaces fibered in rational curves
Let $S$ be a projective surface with a morphism $S\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1$ whose fibers are either smooth $\mathbb{P}^1$'s or the union of two smooth $\mathbb{P}^1$'s intersecting in a point.
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Confusion with terminology: Crepant resolution of terminal singularities
In Theorem 1.1 of this article, Bridgeland proves derived equivalence between Crepant resolution of threefold terminal singularities. I am a little confused with this terminology. In particular, a $\...
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Smoothness of fibers over finite fields
Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a morphism of smooth projective varieties over a finite field of characteristic different from $2$. Is there any result on the existence of a point $y\in Y$ such that $X_y = ...
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Smooth complete intersections
Let $X_{2,3}\subset\mathbb{P}^n$, with $n\geq 5$, be a complete intersection of a quadric $X_2$ and a cubic $X_3$ containing a $2$-plane $H$. Assume $X_2$ and $X_3$ to be general among the ...
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Are Du Val singularities smoothable?
I am interested in when a Du Val surface singularity is smoothable. By Du Val singularity, I mean (the germ of a) isolated double point surface singularity admitting a resolution by blowups of ...
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Existence of terminal $3$-fold flips
Does there exist a terminal $3$-fold $X$ with a curve $C\subset X$ such that $K_X\cdot C < 0$ admitting a Mori flip $X\dashrightarrow Y$, flipping $C$ to a curve $C'\subset Y$, where the singular ...
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Does a resolution of a rational singularity have rationally connected fibers?
A rational singularity is a singularity of a
complex variety $X$ such that for any
resolution $\pi:\; \tilde X\rightarrow X$ the
higher direct images $R^i\pi_*(O_{\tilde X})$
vanish for all $i>0$. ...
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How to distinguish the singularities on moduli space?
Let me start with concrete examples. Let $X$ be a smooth special Gushel-Mukai threefold and $\mathcal{C}(X)$ be its honest Fano surface of conics, it has two irreducible components $\mathcal{C}(X)=\...
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Weak Fano varieties and small transformations
A projective normal and $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial variety $X$ is said to be log Fano if there exists and effective divisor $D$ on $X$ such $-K_X-D$ is ample and the pair $(X,D)$ is klt.
Now, let $f:X\...
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Divisorial contractions and singularities
I have a smooth $6$-fold $X\subset\mathbb{P}^n$ and a divisor $D\subset X$ cut out by a quadratic polynomial. I know that $D$ in singular along a smooth $3$-fold $Y\subset X$, and that if $Z$ is the ...
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Kähler-Einstein metrics on singular varieties
Let $X$ be a normal projective variety with klt singularities with numerically trivial canonical divisor $K_X$.
Does there always exist a Kähler-Einstein metric on $X$?
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Singularities of rational quartic surfaces
Let $X\subset \mathbb{P}^3$ be an irreducible quartic surface, defined over an algebraically closed field $k$. Suppose that $X$ is rational (i.e. birational to $\mathbb{P}^2$). Is is true that $X$ has ...
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A paradox on the deformation of singularities
Setup: $\pi: \mathcal X \to C$ is a flat morphism from a germ of a smooth curve $(C, o)$. Suppose the special fiber $\pi^{-1}(o) := \mathcal X_o$ has a certain class of singularities, one wants to ...
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Small contractions as blow ups
To improve my chances of getting answers/ comments I post my mathstackexchange question https://math.stackexchange.com/q/2808852/42548 also here.
I am trying to learn a bit about birational morphisms:...
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A question about explicit computations of discrepancies
The following is an explicit computation of discrepancies appeared in the book "Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties" (Page 126-127) in order to show certain type singularities are not Du Val. ...
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Singularities of fibrations 2
This question is related to my previous question:
Singularities of fibrations
Assume that $X$ is a complete intersection irreducible $3$-fold in a product of projective spaces. So that $X$ is ...
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Singularities of fibrations
Let $f:X\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^2$ be a fibration, here $X$ is a projective variety of dimension three.
Assume that there exixts a smooth curve $C\subset\mathbb{P}^2$ such that for any $p\in\mathbb{P}...
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Singularities of $3$-folds
Let $X,Y,Z$ be projective $3$-folds. Assume that $Y$ is smooth and $Z$ is smooth and Fano. Moreover, assume that there is a generically finite morphism $f:Y\rightarrow Z$ admitting a factorization $f=...
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Advantage of discrepancy
In the definition of Minimal model of projective variety, some authors use of discrepancy, and some others omit this condition. I am wondering to know the advantage of discrepancy In the definition of ...
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Log canonical counterexample to Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing
I found in the literature that, in characteristic 0, Kodaira vanishing holds for log-canonical pairs. On the other hand, the usual statement for Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing talks about a klt pair $(X,\...
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Cohen-Macaulayness of the direct image of the canonical sheaf
Let $Y$ be a normal projective variety and let $f:X\to Y$ be a desingularization. Define $\mathcal K_X=f_*\omega_X$, the Grauert--Riemenschneider canonical sheaf of $X$. It is independent of the ...
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Can one prove vanishing of higher direct images fiber-wise?
Let $\pi:X\to Y$ be a proper map of algebraic varieties (over $\mathbb C$) which is a bi-rational equivalence.
are the following statements equivalent?
The derived direct image of $O_X$ is $O_Y$.
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Simplified treatment of resolutions of complex analytic varieties?
According to the article of Hauser:
The Hironaka theorem on resolution of singularities http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2003-40-03/S0273-0979-03-00982-0/home.html
The existence of resolution of ...
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