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A Strictly Decreasing Invariant for Resolution of Singularities in Dimension Two

  • Vincent Cossart

    Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France

  • Bernd Schober

    Leibniz Universität Hannover and Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
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Abstract

We construct a local invariant for resolution of singularities of two-dimensional excellent Noetherian schemes with boundary. We prove that the invariant strictly decreases at every step of the algorithm of Cossart, Jannsen and Saito.

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Vincent Cossart, Bernd Schober, A Strictly Decreasing Invariant for Resolution of Singularities in Dimension Two. Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 56 (2020), no. 2, pp. 217–280

DOI 10.4171/PRIMS/56-2-1