Maps onto certain Fano threefolds.
A goal of this paper is a characterization of singularities according to a new invariant, Mather discrepancy. We also show some evidences convincing us that Mather discrepancy is a reasonable invariant in a view point of birational geometry.
We generalize Nakamaye’s description, via intersection theory, of the augmented base locus of a big and nef divisor on a normal pair with log-canonical singularities or, more generally, on a normal variety with non-lc locus of dimension . We also generalize Ein-Lazarsfeld-Mustaţă-Nakamaye-Popa’s description, in terms of valuations, of the subvarieties of the restricted base locus of a big divisor on a normal pair with klt singularities.
Using non-Archimedian integration over spaces of arcs of algebraic varieties, we define stringy Euler numbers associated with arbitrary Kawamata log-terminal pairs. There is a natural Kawamata log-terminal pair corresponding to an algebraic variety having a regular action of a finite group . In this situation we show that the stringy Euler number of this pair coincides with the physicists’ orbifold Euler number defined by the Dixon-Harvey-Vafa-Witten formula. As an application, we prove a conjecture...
We show that every small resolution of a 3-dimensional terminal hypersurface singularity can occur on a non-embeddable -convex manifold.We give an explicit example of a non-embeddable manifold containing an irreducible exceptional rational curve with normal bundle of type . To this end we study small resolutions of -singularities.