Joel Sievert : Resolution of Singularities on Toric Varieties

Posted by , part of the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Feb. 14, 2012, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 712

Abstract

We will look at the conditions under which a cone gives rise to a nonsingular affine toric variety, and then describe how one can subdivide a given fan into such cones, giving rise to a nonsingular toric variety with a proper birational map to the variety given by the original fan.