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Note that without any assumption on the singularities the answer to your question is yes. For instance, consider the hypersurface $Y = \{x_0^2+x_1^3+x_2^4\}\subset\mathbb{P}^3$. Then $Sing(Y) = [0:0:0:1]$. The projective tangent cone of $Y$ in the singular point is not reduced. Therefore, the singularity is not ordinary. Let $\pi:X\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^3$ be ...
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I believe that $(Y,B)$ is always klt for some boundary $B$. In fact by Theorem 5.2 of https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.jdg/1090347529, after passing to a truncation of the pluricanonical rings, there is a klt pair of log general type $(Y',B')$ with isomorphic pluricanonical ring (more precisely $R(K_X)^{(a)}\cong R(K_{X'}+B')^{(b)}$ for ...
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I assume you want $Y \to X$ to be proper. The answer is a definite no, in general. For example, take a polynomial $f: \mathbb A^2 \to \mathbb A^1$; such a $Y$ would have to be finite over $\mathbb A^2$, and birational, so $Y = \mathbb A^2$. There are lots of counterexamples in higher dimension too: for example, it follows from the purity theorem that you ...
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As pointed out by Alex in his comment, this is in general not true.
For instance, consider the case $N=d=n=m=2$. Then $|L|$ is the linear system of plane curves of degree $2$ passing through $p_1$ and $p_2$ with multiplicity $2$. Of course there is only one such a curve, namely the line through $p_1$ and $p_2$ counted with multiplicity $2$. In particular, $|...
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That particular singularity only can have a crepant resolution if it has a small resolution.
Terminal singularities
If a variety has terminal singularities (like yours does), the then every further blow-up also has discrepancies $> 0$. (In other words, whether or not the variety has terminal singularities can be read off from a single log resolution). ...
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The weighted projective plane $\mathbb{P}(1,1,n)$ can be viewed as $\mathbb{P}(1,1,n)=\mathbb{C}^3\setminus \{0\}/(x,y,z)\sim (\lambda x,\lambda y,\lambda^n z)$. For $n=1$ we obtain the standard projective plane. For $n>1$, the point $(0,0,1)$ is the unique singular point, and the blow-up of this point is a Hirzebruch surface $\mathbb{F}_n$, with ...
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The answers are the following.
(1) It is well known that the singularity at the vertex of the cone over the Veronese surface is isomorphic to a quotient singularity of type $\frac{1}{2}(1, \, 1, \,1)$, that is the isolated singularity given by the quotient of $\mathbb{C}^3$ by the action of $\mathbb{Z}/2 \mathbb{Z}$ of the form $(x, \,y, \,z) \mapsto (-x, \,...
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Consider $A=k[[x^3,x^2y,y^3]]\subset k[[x^3, x^2y, xy^2, y^3]]=B$. $B$ is the integral closure of $A$, $A$ is a hypersurface, but $B$ is not Gorenstein.
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Put $d:=\deg(X)$. From the exact sequence
$$0\rightarrow \mathcal{O}_X(-d)\rightarrow \Omega ^1_{\mathbb{P}^n|X}\rightarrow \Omega ^1_X\rightarrow 0$$you get an exact sequence $\ 0\rightarrow T_X\rightarrow T_{\mathbb{P}^n|X}\rightarrow \mathcal{O}_X(d)\rightarrow \mathcal{E}xt^1(\Omega ^1_X,\mathcal{O}_X)\rightarrow 0$.
From this you find easily $H^i(X,...
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It is easy to see that the canonical class of $X'$ is trivial (combine the formula for the canonical class of the blowup of $A^3$ and the adjunction formula). Hence $X'$ is crepant. But a crepant resolution of a surface is unique, so $X = X'$.
By the way, if you look at the exceptional divisor of $X'$, you will note that this is a union of two curves (in ...
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$\hat{X}$ can be as bad as you want. For example, take your favorite non-Gorenstein variety $\hat{X}$ in $\mathbb{A}^N$. By Noether Lemma there is a finite morphism $\hat{X} \to \mathbb{A}^n =: Y$. Take $X$ to be a resolution of singularities of $\hat{X}$. Then $X \to Y$ is a quasifinite morphism between smooth varieties.
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The only restriction I see is that $\hat{X}$ must be normal (because $X$ is): if $\phi$ is a rational function on (some affine open subscheme of) $\hat{X}$ which is integral over $\mathscr{O}_\hat{X}$, then $\phi\circ\pi$ is integral over $\mathscr{O}_{X}$, hence in $\mathscr{O}_{X}$. In other words, $\phi$ lies in $\pi_*\mathscr{O}_{X}=\mathscr{O}_\hat{X}$.
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Edit. This follows from the Elkik-Fujita Vanishing Theorem. There is a more general vanishing theorem due to Elkik and Fujita. One version of this theorem (where I read the theorem) is Theorem 1.3.1 of the following article.
MR0946243 (89e:14015)
Kawamata, Yujiro; Matsuda, Katsumi; Matsuki, Kenji
Introduction to the minimal model problem. Algebraic ...
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This is false in general. Take $f:\mathbb A^2\to \mathbb A^1$, $(x,y)\mapsto xy$. Any attempt to resolve the singular fiber will bring in a new component in the fiber, so it remains singular.
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The statement is still false with the most recently added conditions.
The problem is that $-E$ is not necessarily ($\pi$-)nef. I will discuss below what one can do to fix the statement so it will hold. First, here is an example:
Let $W$ be a two dimensional rational double point that's either a $D_n$ or an $E_n$ singularity. The point is to have an ...
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Here is an answer for the affine case. Assume $f:A\to B$ is a homomorphism of Noetherian rings. Then $B$ is a filtered colimit of smooth (finitely generated) $A$-algebras iff $f$ is regular (flat with geometrically regular fibers). This is due to Popescu and Spivakovsky; see for instance Teissier's Bourbaki talk
http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~teissier/documents/...
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First let us describe the resolution explicitly. Let $A = k[x,y,z,w]/(xy-(z-w^k)(z+w^k))$. Note that the ideal $I = (x,z-w^k)$ has a resolution of the form
$$
A\oplus A \to A\oplus A \to I \to 0,
$$
where the map is given by the matrix $\left(\begin{smallmatrix} x & z+w^k \\ z-w^k & y \end{smallmatrix}\right)$. It follows that the blowup $X$ of the ...
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For the Hermitian symmetric $G/P$, Nicolas Perrin explicitly classified all the Schubert varieties admitting a small resolution. (More explicitly, he classifies all the minimal models and quotes a theorem that says a small resolution is a smooth minimal model.) If I remember correctly, except for some very small rank exceptions, type A, and the obvious ...
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There are six small crepant resolutions of this singularity, it being the (pullback via the Weyl group of the) versal deformation space of the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ surface singularity. The six small resolutions are in one-to-one correspondence with the Weyl group, namely $S_3$, and they correspond to orderings of $\{x,y,z\}$.
To see how this works, if you blow-...
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It is a good exercise to make the computation in the simplest possible case: $X=\mathbb{C}^2$, $G=\mathbb{Z}/2$ acting by the antipodal involution, so that $Y$ is a quadratic cone, $\tilde{Y}$ obtained by blowing up the vertex of the cone. Locally $\tilde{X} :=X\times _Y\tilde{Y} $ is given in $\mathbb{C}^3$ by the equations $x(y-tx)=y(y-tx)=0$. That is, $\...
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I assume that you mean $x_1=x_2=0$ in your description of the divisors. I believe that you only really get two different resolutions, but yes, they are both projective varieties. Hodge numbers of birational complex Calabi-Yau varieties are always the same.
You can think of this as a determinantal variety for the matrix $A$ of the form
$$
\Big(\begin{array}{...
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Here is a proof of $d = \frac{1}{2}$. Then you can argue as Francesco did in point two of his answer.
Consider the action:
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
\mu_{2}\times\mathbb{A}^{3} & \longrightarrow & \mathbb{A}^{3}\\
(\epsilon,x_{1}, x_{2}, x_3) & \longmapsto & (\epsilon x_{1},\epsilon x_{2}, \epsilon x_3)
\end{array}
$$
The ring of invariants is ...
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I think the answer is no. In your notation, take $n=5$, $p=1$ and $q=2$. If you consider the blowup at the origin $X\to \mathbb C^2$, then $\mathbb Z_5$ acts on $X$ with two isolated fixed points: at one of the points the action has $p=q=1$ and at the other the action has $p=2$, $q=4$, which is the same as $p=1$, $q=2$. So the blow up introduces an isolated ...
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Actually, there is a rather straightforward way to see that this singularity is factorial:
Let $X=\mathrm{Spec}\ k[x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4,x_5]/(x_1x_2+x_3x_4+x_5^2)$ and let $D=(x_2=0)\subseteq X$ be a principal divisor. Notice that then $D= \mathrm{Spec}\ k[x_1,x_3,x_4,x_5]/(x_3x_4+x_5^2)$, so it is a cone over a quadric cone. In particular, it is irreducible ...
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Note that $-1 = i^2$. Thus your action is $(x,y)\mapsto (i^2x,iy)$. You can interpret this in the following way. Let $\epsilon\in \mu_4$ and consider tha action given by $(x,y)\mapsto (\epsilon^2 x,\epsilon y)$. The quotient $X = \mathbb{C}^2/\mu_4$ is given by $X = (w^2-uv = 0)\subset\mathbb{A}^3$. This is because as you observed the invariant polynomials ...
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Let me start being a little nitpicking with the formulation of the question. The fact that $X$ is $\mathbb Q$-factorial does not in itself imply that such $a$ and $b$ exists. One also needs the fact that the Picard number of $X$ is $1$. This is indeed true, but perhaps should be mentioned. In fact, the Picard group of $X$ is $\mathbb Z$ which was silently ...
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For what it's worth, one can say the following sort of thing.
Since $Y$ is log terminal so is $(\hat{X}, -\mathrm{Ram})$. This doesn't mean much since in the pair, the boundary has a negative coefficients (ie, the singularities of $\hat{X}$ can be arbitrarily bad). But it does say things like:
if $\hat{X}$ has really bad singularities at some points, ...
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I am turning Giulia's comment into a CW answer. At over 400 pages, I think that "Travaux de Gabber", published in Astérisque, ought to count as a "comprehensive treatment of [some aspects of ] étale cohomology" using the method of alterations. The style is very SGA, and indeed there is a nonempty intersection among the set of authors.
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By the Hochster-Roberts Theorem it is Cohen-Macaulay
The canonical sheaf of $\mathbb A^n$ is $G$-invariant (because the elements of $G$ have det=1) and hence it descends to the canonical sheaf of the quotient, which is then a line bundle.
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Choose five points $P_i$ in general linear position (all choices are
equivalent under ${\rm PGL}_4$, so you might as well put four of them
at the coordinate vectors and the fifth at $(1:1:1:1)$); then
at each $P_i$ the condition of a triple point imposes $1+3+6 = 10$
linear conditions on the space of quintics, which has dimension
${8 \choose 5} = 56$, so you ...
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