Image of the Nash map in terms of wedges. (Q1426626)

Let \(k\) be an uncountable algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and \(X\) a \(k\)-variety with singular locus \(S\). Let \(\pi :X_\infty \rightarrow X\) be the canonical projection from the space of arcs \(X_\infty\) on \(X\) to \(X\). The Nash map is a canonical map \(\mathcal{N}\) from the set of irreducible components of \(X_\infty^S=\pi^{-1}(S)\) into the set of essential components on a resolution of singularities \(Y\) of \(X\). An essential component on \(Y\) is the center on \(Y\) of an essential divisor over \(X\). An essential divisor over \(X\) is a divisorial valuation \(\nu\) of the function field \(k(X)\) of \(X\) centered in \(S\) such that the center \(\nu\) on any desingularization \(p:Y \rightarrow X \) is an irreducible component of the exceptional locus \(p^{-1}(S)\) on \(Y\). The map \(\mathcal{N}\) does not depend on \(Y\). Necessary and sufficient conditions for an essential divisor are given to be in the image of the Nash map. Especially it follows that the Nash problem is true for sandwiched surface singularities.