A simplified proof of desingularization and applications.

Bravo, Ana María, Encinas, Santiago, and Villamayor Uriburu, Orlando. "A simplified proof of desingularization and applications.." Revista Matemática Iberoamericana 21.2 (2005): 349-458. <http://eudml.org/doc/41939>.

@article{Bravo2005,
abstract = {This paper contains a short and simplified proof of desingularization over fields of characteristic zero, together with various applications to other problems in algebraic geometry (among others, the study of the behavior of desingularization of families of embedded schemes, and a formulation of desingularization which is stronger than Hironaka's). Our proof avoids the use of the Hilbert-Samuel function and Hironaka's notion of normal flatness: First we define a procedure for principalization of ideals (i.e. a procedure to make an ideal invertible), and then we show that desingularization of a closed subscheme X is achieved by using the procedure of principalization for the ideal I(X) associated to the embedded scheme X. The paper intends to be an introduction to the subject, focused on the motivation of ideas used in this new approach, and particularly on applications, some of which do not follow from Hironaka's proof. },
author = {Bravo, Ana María, Encinas, Santiago, Villamayor Uriburu, Orlando},
journal = {Revista Matemática Iberoamericana},
keywords = {Geometría algebraica; Singularidades; Geometría birracional},
language = {eng},
number = {2},
pages = {349-458},
title = {A simplified proof of desingularization and applications.},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/41939},
volume = {21},
year = {2005},
}

TY - JOUR
AU - Bravo, Ana María
AU - Encinas, Santiago
AU - Villamayor Uriburu, Orlando
TI - A simplified proof of desingularization and applications.
JO - Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
PY - 2005
VL - 21
IS - 2
SP - 349
EP - 458
AB - This paper contains a short and simplified proof of desingularization over fields of characteristic zero, together with various applications to other problems in algebraic geometry (among others, the study of the behavior of desingularization of families of embedded schemes, and a formulation of desingularization which is stronger than Hironaka's). Our proof avoids the use of the Hilbert-Samuel function and Hironaka's notion of normal flatness: First we define a procedure for principalization of ideals (i.e. a procedure to make an ideal invertible), and then we show that desingularization of a closed subscheme X is achieved by using the procedure of principalization for the ideal I(X) associated to the embedded scheme X. The paper intends to be an introduction to the subject, focused on the motivation of ideas used in this new approach, and particularly on applications, some of which do not follow from Hironaka's proof.
LA - eng
KW - Geometría algebraica; Singularidades; Geometría birracional
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/41939
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