How to determine the sign of valuation on C[x,y]

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1491465683zbMATH Open1386.13013arXiv1301.3172OpenAlexW2963134837MaRDI QIDQ2363549FDOQ2363549

Authors: Pinaki Mondal 

Publication date: 20 July 2017

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a divisorial discrete valuation 'centered at infinity' on C[x,y], we show that its sign on C[x,y] (i.e. whether it is negative or non-positive on non-constant polynomials) is completely determined by the sign of its value on the 'last key form' (key forms being the avatar of 'key polynomials' of valuations (introduced by [Maclane, 1936]) in 'global coordinates'). The proof involves computations related to the cone of curves on certain compactifications of C^2 and gives a characterization of the divisorial valuations centered at infinity whose 'skewness' can be interpreted in terms of the 'slope' of an extremal ray of these cones, yielding a generalization of a result of [Favre-Jonsson, 2007]. A by-product of these arguments is a characterization of valuations which 'determine' normal compactifications of C^2 with one irreducible curve at infinity in terms of an associated 'semigroup of values'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3172

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zbMATH Keywords

value semigroupsemidegreedivisorial valuationkey form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Valuations and their generalizations for commutative rings (13A18)

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