Abstract
We provide a simple procedure for resolving, in characteristic 0, singularities of a variety X embedded in a smooth variety Y by repeatedly blowing up the worst singularities, in the sense of stack-theoretic weighted blowings up. No history, no exceptional divisors, and no logarithmic structures are necessary to carry this out; the steps are explicit geometric operations requiring no choices; and the resulting algorithm is efficient. A similar result was discovered independently by McQuillan (2020).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1557-1587 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Algebra and Number Theory |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Authors, under license to MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers).
Keywords
- algebraic stacks
- resolution of singularities
- weighted blowings up