Singularities on demi-normal varieties

DOI10.1007/S11565-016-0251-1zbMATH Open1365.14005arXiv1506.02002OpenAlexW2963339234MaRDI QIDQ2374333FDOQ2374333

Authors: Jeremy Berquist 

Publication date: 15 December 2016

Published in: Annali dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione VII. Scienze Matematiche (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The birational classification of varieties inevitably leads to the study of singularities. The types of singularities that occur in this context have been studied by Mori, Koll'ar, Reid, and others, beginning in the 1980s with the introduction of the minimal model program. Normal singularities that are terminal, canonical, log terminal, and log canonical, and their non-normal counterparts, are typically studied using a resolution of singularities (or a semiresolution) and finding numerical conditions that relate the canonical class of the variety to that of its resolution. In order to do this, it has been assumed that a variety $X$ has a $mathbbQ$-Cartier canonical class: some multiple $m{K}_X$ of the canonical class is Cartier. In particular, this divisor can be pulled back under a resolution $f:YightarrowX$ by pulling back its local sections. Then one has a relation $K_{Y}simfrac1m{f}^{\ast }(m{K}_X)+sum{a}_i{E}_i$. It is then the coefficients of the exceptional divisors $E_i$ that determine the type of singularities that belong to $X$. It might be asked whether this $mathbbQ$-Cartier hypothesis is necessary in studying singularities in birational classification. In cite{dFH09}, de Fernex and Hacon construct a boundary divisor $Delta$ for arbitrary normal varieties, the resulting divisor $K_X+Delta$ being $mathbbQ$-Cartier even though $K_X$ itself is not. This they call (for reasons that will be made clear) an $m$-compatible boundary for $X$, and they proceed to show that the singularities defined in terms of the pair $(X,Delta)$ are none other than the singularities just described, when $K_X$ happens to be $mathbbQ$-Cartier. In the present paper, we extend the results of cite{dFH09} still further, to include demi-normal varieties without a $mathbbQ$-Cartier canonical class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02002

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zbMATH Keywords

singularities of the minimal model programdemi-normal varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17)

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• Generalized divisors on Gorenstein schemes
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• Discrepancies of non-\(\mathbb Q\)-Gorenstein varieties

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