Factorisation de certains morphismes birationnels
Following the study of the arc structure of singularities, initiated by J. Nash, we give criteria for the existence of smooth curves on a surface singularity (S,O) and of smooth branches of its generic hypersurface section. The main applications are the following: the existence of a natural partition of the set of smooth curves on (S,O) into families, a description of each of them by means of chains of infinitely near points and their associated maximal cycle and the existence of smooth curves on...
Suppose that is a local domain essentially of finite type over a field of characteristic , and a valuation of the quotient field of which dominates . The rank of such a valuation often increases upon extending the valuation to a valuation dominating , the completion of . When the rank of is , Cutkosky and Ghezzi handle this phenomenon by resolving the prime ideal of infinite value, but give an example showing that when the rank is greater than , there is no natural ideal in that...