Titel
On the Problem of Resolution of Singularities in Positive Characteristic (Or: A proof we are still waiting for)
Abstract
Assume that, in the near future, someone can prove resolution of singularities in arbitrary characteristic and dimension. Then one may want to know why the case of positive characteristic is so much harder than the classical characteristic zero case. Our intention here is to provide this piece of information for people who are not necessarily working in the field. A singularity of an algebraic variety in positive characteristic is called wild if the resolution invariant from characteristic zero, defined suitably without reference to hypersurfaces of maximal contact, increases under blowup when passing to the transformed singularity at a selected point of the exceptional divisor (a so called kangaroo point). This phenomenon represents one of the main obstructions for the still unsolved problem of resolution in positive characteristic. In the present article, we will try to understand it.
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:243563
Erschienen in
Titel
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series
Band
47
Ausgabe
1
Seitenanfang
1
Seitenende
30
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2010
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