Two aspects of log terminal surface singularities

DOI10.1007/BF02940775MaRDI QIDQ1341245zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 10 November 1997

Published in Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02940775

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmCartier divisorcodiscrepancycyclic quotient singularitiesHirzebruch-Jung continued fractionindex of singularitylog canonical singularitieslog terminal singularitiesweights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Global theory and resolution of singularities (algebro-geometric aspects) (14E15) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17)

Review text

Log canonical singularities of a surface \(X\) have an index, i.e. a smallest positive integer \(I\) such that \(I\cdot K_X\) is Cartier. If \(\sigma:\widetilde{X}\to X\) is a good resolution of \(X\), \(E_i\) being the exceptional curves, \(I\) is obtained from the codiscrepancy \(\Delta\), where \(\sigma^*K_X= K_{\widetilde{X}}+ \Delta\) and \(\Delta=\sum \delta_iE_i\) and \(I=\min\{n\in \mathbb{N}_+\mid \forall i:n\cdot\delta_i\in \mathbb{Z}\}\). This paper studies log canonical and log terminal singularities, i.e. such singularities with \(\delta_i\leq 1\) for all \(i\) (\(\delta_i<1\), respectively), for a fixed number \(I\). There is a classification given in theorem A: The set of log terminal singularities consists of finitely many series (the number of series is explicitly given for each \(I\)) and in each series the singularities are indexed by natural numbers and ``behave very regular. Essential for this investigation is a new numerical characterization of cyclic quotient singularities: The Hirzebruch-Jung continued fraction and the description of Riemenschneider, respectively, are compared with a triplet \((I,m,\alpha)\) involving the index \(I\), where \(n=I\cdot m\), \(q=m\cdot\alpha-1\) if the singularity is of type \((n,q)\). A series of cyclic quotient singularities is obtained simply in the form \((I,m,\alpha), (I,m+I,\alpha), (I,m+2I,\alpha),\dots\) -- The theorem provides an algorithm to obtain all log canonical singularities of given index \(I\). The author points out that his recent implementation on a computer proved useful to find log surfaces of prescribed index and Kodaira dimension 0. In theorem B, the weights \(b_i:= E_i^2\) of the singularity are considered. They are shown to measure ``how singular is the singularity for the case of log terminal singularities, whereas this is not the case in general. -- As an application, a new bound for the maximal number of weights \(\neq 2\) of a log terminal singularity of index \(I\) is given. Further, ascending and descending chain conditions for maximum and minimum, respectively of the \(\delta_i\) are considered. The author points out a partial overlap with a paper by \textit{A. Alexeev} [Duke Math. J. 69, No. 3, 527-545 (1993; Zbl 0791.14006)].

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