Alterations and resolution of singularities
This paper is a pedagogical survey of proofs of De Jong's theorem ``Any variety \(X\) can be altered into a nonsingular variety and of some corollaries. The main ingredients and tools are exposed for ``any student of algebraic geometry. The main reference is \textit{A. J. De Jong}'s paper: ``Smoothness, semistability and alterations, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 83, 51-53 (1996; Zbl 0916.14005)]. Let us recall that an alteration of a variety \(X\) is a variety \(Y\) with a proper, surjective and generically finite morphism \(Y \rightarrow X\). In the introduction, the authors make first a small exposition of Hironaka's and De Jong's theorems then give the skeleton of De Jong's proof. The first part of the paper is a proof of De Jong's theorem (theorem 2.3 here) and of some corollaries in characteristic 0 (desingularization 2.8). The proof is complete up to exercises, a few references and an existence theorem proven in the second part. The second part is a small course on the theory of moduli of curves, a theory which is drastically used by De Jong and which is ``well known by the experts. Indeed, the difficult point in part I is to show that, if there is a morphism \(f: X \rightarrow P\) where all the fibers are curves, after an alteration of \(P\), you can reach the case where all the fibers are curves with only ordinary nodes as singularities. This is a consequence of theorem 3.6, its proof uses the fact that there is a ``tautological family of curves over the compactified moduli space of curves with a level structure. The purpose of the second part is to prove the existence of this tautological family. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0932.00042].
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- Families of curves and alterations
- Smoothness, semi-stability and alterations
- Gromov compactness in non-archimedean analytic geometry
- Semipositivity of generic ordinary fibration over a curve
- Inseparable local uniformization
- Positivity of anticanonical divisors in algebraic fibre spaces
- Compactifying the space of stable maps
- ON RESOLVING SINGULARITIES
- Alterations can remove singularities
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1047629 (Why is no real title available?)
- Stable modification of relative curves
- Applications of de Jong's theorem on alterations
- Nef anti-canonical divisors and rationally connected fibrations
- Desingularization by \(\mathrm{char}(X)\)-alterations
- Regular singular stratified bundles and tame ramification
- On the problem of resolution of singularities in positive characteristic (Or: A proof we are still waiting for)
- On the canonical bundle formula in positive characteristic
- Motivation for Hodge cycles
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