Birational maps of 3-folds

2013/04/22 by Jungkai A. Chen, Chen, Jungkai Alfred
Mathematics · #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.5949

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Abstract

We show that 3-fold terminal flips and divisorial contractions may be factored into a sequence of flops, blow-downs to a smooth curve in a smooth 3-fold or divisorial contractions to points with minimal discrepancies.

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