Jet schemes, log discrepancies and inversion of adjunction (Q1411972)

The paper under review provides a way to compute minimal log discrepancies of a pair \((X,Y)\), where \(X\) is \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Gorenstein normal and \(Y\) is a formal combination of proper closed subschemes in \(X\). This extends previous results of \textit{M. Mustaţă} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 15, No. 3, 599--615 (2002; Zbl 0998.14009)] and \textit{T. Yasuda} [Am. J. Math. 125, 1137--1145 (2003; Zbl 1049.14011)]. The first application of this is a proof of the inversion of adjunction conjecture in the case when the ambient variety is smooth. Then the authors obtain a characterization of terminal hypersurface singularities. Finally they prove a semicontinuity for minimal log discrepancies in the case of a smooth ambient variety.