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Desingularization: Invariants and Strategy

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ((LNM,volume 2270))

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Let X be an irreducible and reduced excellent noetherian scheme.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our colleagues D. Cutkosky, O. Piltant, B. Schober, B. Teissier, O. Villamayor and some others whom we forgot, for long conversations on this topic and who encourage us to put this monograph in a suitable form to be published. Special thanks to B. Schober who sent us a long list of misprints and who helped us for many corrections, B. Tiefenbach who made the pictures and G. Moreno-Socias who helped us for the formatting and the readability of this book.

Many thanks to Dan Abramovich who encouraged us to publish this book and who, at the very end of the process, asked us 5 questions on the characteristic polyhedra. Great many thanks to Bernd Schober who accepted to write down, on short notice, the Appendix answering Dan Abramovich’s questions.

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  1. Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, LMV (UMR 8100) CNRS, Versailles Cedex, France

    Vincent Cossart

  2. Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Bayern, Germany

    Uwe Jannsen

  3. Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuji Saito

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Cossart, V., Jannsen, U., Saito, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Desingularization: Invariants and Strategy. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52640-5_1

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