On the Invariants of Base Changes of Pencils of Curves, I.
Let be a germ of normal surface with local ring covering a germ of regular surface with local ring of characteristic . Given an extension of valuation rings birationally dominating , we study the existence of a new such pair of local rings birationally dominating , such that is regular and has only toric singularities. This is achieved when is defectless or when is equal to
Let be a projective Frobenius split variety with a fixed Frobenius splitting . In this paper we give a sharp uniform bound on the number of subvarieties of which are compatibly Frobenius split with . Similarly, we give a bound on the number of prime -ideals of an -finite -pure local ring. Finally, we also give a bound on the number of log canonical centers of a log canonical pair. This final variant extends a special case of a result of Helmke.
Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Let C be an irreducible nonsingular curve in ℙⁿ such that 3C = S ∩ F, where S is a hypersurface and F is a surface in ℙⁿ and F has rational triple points. We classify the rational triple points through which such a curve C can pass (Theorem 1.8), and give an example (1.12). We only consider reduced and irreducible surfaces.