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Simple Hironaka resolution in characteristic zero

Author(s): Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (2005), 779-822.
MSC (2000): Primary 14E15, 14B05, 32S05, 32S45
Posted: July 13, 2005
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Abstract: Building upon work of Villamayor and Bierstone-Milman we give a proof of the canonical Hironaka principalization and desingularization. The idea of ``homogenized ideals" introduced in the paper gives a priori the canonicity of the algorithm and radically simplifies the proof.


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Additional Information:

Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Email: wlodar@math.purdue.edu, jwlodar@mimuw.edu.pl

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00493-5
PII: S 0894-0347(05)00493-5
Received by editor(s): January 28, 2004
Posted: July 13, 2005
Additional Notes: The author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0100598 and Polish KBN grant 2 P03 A 005 16
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
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