Relative rounding in toric and logarithmic geometry (Q600819)

The authors study singularities of mappings of logarithmic analytic spaces. They show that a certain real blowing up procedure, which is a far-reaching generalization of the introduction of polar coordinates, smoothes out a wide class of such mappings, rendering them locally trivial in the topological category. In particular, they show that the Betti realization of a smooth proper and exact mapping of log analytic spaces is a topological fibration, whose fibers are orientable manifolds (with boundary). Some cohomological manifestations of this technique have already been studied by [\textit{T.~Kajiwara} and \textit{C.~Nakayama}, J. Math. Sci., Tokyo 15, No. 2, 291--323 (2008; Zbl 1180.14016)], with applications to monodromy and vanishing cycles by [\textit{L.~Illusie}, \textit{K.~Kazuya} and \textit{C.~Nakayama}, J. Math. Sci., Tokyo 12, No. 1, 1--66 (2005; Zbl 1082.14024)].