Combinatorial aspects of sequences of point blowing ups (Q1340219)

The authors study morphisms given by composition of a sequence of point blow ups of smooth \(d\)-dimensional varieties in terms of combinatorial information coming from the \(d\)-ary intersection form on divisors with exceptional support. The other combinatorial objects under consideration are the so-called weighted dual polyhedron, the weighted dual graph, and the weighted dual tree associated to such morphism. The weighted dual polyhedron and graph are appropriate generalizations of the weighted dual graph for \(d = 2\), the weights being only intersection numbers. The weighted tree is a way to represent combinatorially the sequence of the corresponding blowing ups. The main result of the paper claims the equivalence of the above objects; it follows from this result that the intersection form, the weighted dual polyhedron or the weighted dual graph determine the decomposition of the morphism as the sequence of blowing ups.