New Techniques in Resolution of Singularities

Download or read book New Techniques in Resolution of Singularities written by Dan Abramovich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resolution of singularities is notorious as a difficult topic within algebraic geometry. Recent work, aiming at resolution of families and semistable reduction, infused the subject with logarithmic geometry and algebraic stacks, two techniques essential for the current theory of moduli spaces. As a byproduct a short, a simple and efficient functorial resolution procedure in characteristic 0 using just algebraic stacks was produced. The goals of the book, the result of an Oberwolfach Seminar, are to introduce readers to explicit techniques of resolution of singularities with access to computer implementations, introduce readers to the theories of algebraic stacks and logarithmic structures, and to resolution in families and semistable reduction methods.