Jet schemes of locally complete intersection canonical singularities. (Q5950703)

The author shows a striking result which characterizes singularities in terms of the jet schemes. This paper is the leading paper for forthcoming results [\textit{M. Mustaţă}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 15, No. 5, 599--615 (2002; Zbl 0998.14009), \textit{L. Ein}, \textit{M. Mustaţă} and \textit{T. Yasuda}, Invent. Math. 153, No. 3, 519--535 (2003; Zbl 1049.14008); \textit{L. Ein}, \textit{R. Lazarsfeld} and \textit{M. Mustaţă}, Compos. Math. 140, No. 5, 1229--1244 (2004; Zbl 1060.14004)]. The author shows that a locally complete intersection variety has rational singularities if and only if the jet schemes corresponding to the variety are all irreducible. He also proves that if a locally complete intersection, normal variety has pure-dimensional jet schemes, then it has log canonical singularities. To prove them the author makes use of motivic integration. There, the appearance of certain terms of the motivic integration plays an important role.