The tree of quadratic transforms of a regular local ring of dimension two (Q2193208)

Let $D$ be a 2-dimensional regular local ring and $Q(D)$ denote the quadratic tree of 2-dimensional regular local overrings of $D$. They explored the topology of the tree $Q(D)$ and the family $R(D)$ of rings obtained as intersections of rings in $Q(D)$. If A is a finite intersection of rings in $Q(D)$, then $A$ is Noetherian and the structure of $A$ is well understood. However, other rings in $R(D)$ need not be Noetherian. The two main goals of this paper are to examine topological properties of the quadratic tree $Q(D)$, and to examine the structure of rings in the set $R(D)$. For example, they shown that the patch limit points of the set $Q(D)$ in $L(D)$ is the set of all valuation rings that birationally dominate $D$. Let $V$ be a Noetherian downset in \(Q^\ast(D)\). Then for every Zariski open subset $U$ of $V$, the ring \(O_U\) is a Noetherian normal domain. Next, they showed the Zariski closure of a nonempty subset $S$ of $Q(D)$ can be calculated from how $S$ is situated in the partially ordered set \(Q^\ast(D)\) and established that every minimal valuation overring of $D$ is a localization of a ring in $R(D)$.