Another proof of the Semistable Reduction Theorem

Publication date 19 November 2012

Abstract: We give a new proof of the Semistable Reduction Theorem for curves. The main idea is to present a curve

Y

over a local field

K

as a finite cover of the projective line

X = P P_{K}^{1}

. By successive blowups (and after replacing

K

by a suitable finite extension) we construct a semistable model of

X

whose normalization with respect to the cover is a semistable model of

Y

.

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