On the canonicity of the singularities of quotients of the Fulton-MacPherson compactification

Kriz, Sophie

doi:10.1090/proc/16859

On the canonicity of the singularities of quotients of the Fulton-MacPherson compactification
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by Sophie Kriz;

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (2024), 2725-2730

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/16859

Published electronically: May 21, 2024

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Abstract:

We prove that quotients of the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of configuration spaces of smooth projective varieties of dimension $>1$ by permutation groups have canonical singularities.

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