Ben Gould : On 'A Young Person's Guide to Canonical Singularities' by Miles Reid

Posted by Gregory Taylor , part of the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

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March 13, 2019, 3 p.m.

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712 SEO

Abstract

We will cover Chapter I of Miles Reid's 'A Young Person's Guide to Canonical Singularities.' The paper begins with the motivation for the notion of a (complex quasiprojective) variety to have canonical singularities, and then surveys the general theory, most of which is valid in all dimensions, and some of which is valid only up to dimension 3. We will assume as known much of the material from Hartshorne's II.6 and will overlap somewhat with the ongoing seminar on resolution of singularities.